Do Not Pass Go
Steve Alexander,
Online Learning Magazine,
Mar 04, 2002
A different take on the question of why people drop out of online courses: the number of dropouts, argues the author, doesn't matter. "I'd be appalled if the e-learning drop-out rate meant students had lost interest, or if it meant theyCRLFdidn't learn anything. But I'm not appalled if they dropped out because they learned what they needed to know," says Allison Rossett, professor of educational technology at San Diego State University. This is a good point, one that raises the question of whether the material should have been presented in the context of a long and involved course in the first place.
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