Posts Tagged ‘online student retention’
June 8 - How to Make Your Online Students Feel Connected
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
The college student experience, even for graduate students, is much more than course assignments, so why is it that the online learner’s experience is often limited to logging in, reading assignments and posting on the discussion board?
May 10 - E-Student Affairs: Supporting Online Learners
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
The world of student learning is growing rapidly. Are your student services keeping pace? This seminar explains the unique needs of the online student population, and how you can best structure your student services to meet them.
April 21 - What Can I Do to Increase Student Retention?
By: Mary Bart in 20 Minute Mentor, Student Engagement
What Can I Do to Increase Student Retention? Program includes a CD with the video presentation, plus supplemental materials, PowerPoint slides, and complete transcript • $99 It’s never a good feeling to learn that a student has left your class … or worse, left school altogether. Often it comes as a complete surprise — before
March 30 - Retaining Online Students with a First-Year Experience Program
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Given the success of First-Year Experience programs in retaining traditional students, it’s reasonable to assume they could have the same impact on distance learners. The question is: How do you do it? This seminar will provide you with best practices and insights to help you increase nontraditional student engagement.
January 27 - Five Ways to Improve Interaction in Your Online Courses
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
No matter where you are on the online teaching spectrum—new to it, you’ve taught a few classes, or you’ve been at it for several years—this seminar will supply you with the tools you need to take the next steps toward mastery and effectiveness.
July 27 - Ten Factors that Determine Online Student Success at Community Colleges
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration
Community colleges are especially prone to problems with student completion of courses and retention of the students to graduation. To assist these institutions in addressing problems of persistence among online students, Robert Knipe, dean of learning technologies at Genesee Community College, undertook a study with area colleagues to learn what factors are most critical in predicting success, with an eye to understanding which factors are in the college’s control and which may predict a student at risk for failing to persist.
July 21 - Four Pillars of Online Course Quality
By: Mary Bart in Distance Learning Administration
The rapid growth of online education, coupled with instances of lax academic integrity and cases involving questionable instructional quality, has put the entire industry under the microscope. As a result, today’s distance education programs are looking to not only prove the quality of their programs, but improve them as well.
February 11 - Sloan-C Survey Provides Snapshot of Online Learning
By: Mary Bart in Online Education, Trends in Higher Education
The 2009 Sloan Survey of Online Learning reveals that online enrollments rose by nearly 17 percent from the previous year. The survey of more than 2,500 colleges and universities nationwide finds approximately 4.6 million students were enrolled in at least one online course in fall 2008, the most recent term for which figures are available.
November 23 - Synching up with Your Asynchronous Learners
By: Rob Kelly in Asynchronous Learning and Trends
Some students are reluctant to enroll in online courses, afraid they will miss some of the social aspects of the face-to-face classroom. For these students, it makes sense to incorporate online synchronous sessions to provide some of the benefits of the face-to-face class while maintaining most of the flexibility of an asynchronous online course.
February 12 - Factors that Affect Online Student Retention
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
Research has shown that responsiveness to student’s needs is a critical variable in terms of retention. A sense of belonging as a student, whether traditional or distance learner, has been shown to be an important aspect in retention, and responsiveness to student’s needs is a large determinant in a student feeling like they are part of a course or an institution.
