The purpose of the study was to understand the lecturer’s challenges, motivations and experience of integrating MyLab Accounting.

It has been used on this module for 10 years. The students on the course are full-time, undergraduates with 80% being home students (primarily from Northern Ireland) and 20% international, with English as a second or other language.

It found: 

• 86% found MyLab Accounting very helpful or helpful in building their confidence in the subject
• Students were better informed on their own progress through the feedback and tracking in MyLabAccounting.

MyLab Accounting is a digital learning resource designed to work alongside specific textbooks as an onlinehomework, tutorial and assessment programme. MyLab Accounting provides a variety of different questiontypes which can be studied independently or assigned by the lecturer.

“it’s quite a powerful tool for me from a point of view of identifying if someone’s engaging or not. For example, if in week 4 I have someone who’s not been at a Computer Lab class yet, I will look at MyLab Accounting and see if they’ve engaged with that.”

– Dr Danielle McConville, Module Leader, Queen’s University Belfast