"The results of this analysis," write the authors, "suggest that first year university performance and persistence is significantly different for students who have previous experience with on-line education experiences and those who do not." This is a result that makes sense to me, based on my own work in rural Manitoba. The survey is substantial, "of a census sample of 2,515 first year rural university students enrolled during the 2003-04 through 2005-06 academic years." The authors write, "these results provide support for the provision of on-line education in high school as an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom format." Of course, given the greater choices and access e-learning offers, there would be good reason to support e-learning in rural communities even if university-level persistence were the same, especially for those who never make it to university at all.
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