Online Drop Rates Revisited
David P. Diaz,
The Technology Source,
May 02, 2002
IO once signed up for a psychology course by distance simply for the purpose of obtaining a plastic model of a human brain. It need not be stated that I did not complete the course work. Does this constitute academic failure on my part? Hardly. And this is a part of the point made in this article: that even if the drop rate is higher in online learning than in traditional learning, the drop rate may reflect other causes than academic failure, and indeed may even exhibit greater academic maturity on the part of students (my own case, though, would be an exception). P.S. I never did get my brain.
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