Adapting and enhancing an individual choice classroom experiment for remote asynchronous delivery: a practical case study

The emergence of online platforms has offered many benefits for conducting classroom experiments, while also allowing them to be run under a remote, asynchronous delivery format. However, there is little existing guidance on how to conduct such asynchronous experiments, or evidence about their advantages and disadvantages relative to synchronous, in-person experiments. To help, this paper uses a case study to provide practical, step-by-step guidance of how to adapt an individual choice classroom experiment for asynchronous, remote delivery. Using two sets of example data, we then suggest that the asynchronous version can produce similar in-experiment decision-making to the synchronous, in-person approach, while also obtaining comparable rates of student participation and engagement. Finally, we illustrate how the asynchronous approach can also help instructors to run different treatments within class experiments more easily.