Online course instructors are 94 percent more likely to respond to discussion forum comments made by students with names connoting that they are white and male compared to other race-gender groups, according to research published in March.
The experimental study, “Bias in Online Classes: Evidence from a Field Experiment,” was conducted by researchers from Stanford University, the University of California, Irvine, and Vanderbilt University who posted comments in 124 online course discussion forums in 2014.
