Teaching Accounting Courses Online: One Instructor’s Experience

Abstract

Accounting programs at colleges and universities across the country are offering more online courses, and in some cases entire degree programs.  Given increasing enrollments in online accounting education, it is important that accounting educators become aware of the things that work and the things that don’t work when delivering courses over the internet. This paper addresses the good and bad aspects of teaching accounting online.  It looks at optimal ways to integrate state-of-the-art technology into an online teaching model and explores ways to increase effectiveness of online delivery as compared to traditional courses.  This paper examines teaching accounting courses online at a small liberal arts school. Our research identifies features in the course that led to its effectiveness.