Students perception on e-learning: a case-study

The reflections presented in this work lead us to emphasize the existence of a problem in the new market of university online learning. The costly evaluation of the quality of new courses can in fact increase the risk for students in making the best choice. In the absence of enrollment fees, which can act as a signal of quality, market growth would seem to be severely hampered. On the basis of the answers to a question administered to 1,790 students at Italian universities, we are interested in analyzing the perception of quality of university courses available on line, in order to distinguish signals, à la Spence, which can reduce the problem of adverse selection.