student retention
What Can I Do to Increase Student Retention?
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
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Retaining Online Students with a First-Year Experience Program
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.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
What Faculty Members Need to Know About Retention
If you have been asked to become a part of a retention effort on your campus, you’re not alone. Today, busy faculty members are being asked to pay increasing attention this critical issue. This paper details key methods professors can employ to prevent dropouts and increase student success in college.
Learning Communities: Benefits Across the Board?
There is no question that higher education tends to get caught up in “fashionable” program innovations, and learning communities could certainly be considered an example. A great deal of research has established that, in terms of retention and persistence, first experiences in college are tremendously important.
Helping At-Risk Students Succeed in the College Classroom
Only 51 percent of high school graduates who took the ACT met ACT’s College Readiness Benchmark for Reading, which demonstrates their readiness to handle the reading requirements for typical first-year college coursework. For some groups, the percentage is even more discouraging: African American students are at 21 percent, while Hispanic American students and students from families whose annual income is less than $30,000 are both at 33 percent.
Teaching Unprepared Students: Success and Retention Strategies
There are more unprepared students arriving on college campuses than ever before. The number of college students with defined learning disabilities has tripled, while many other students simply have inadequate reading, writing, and study skills. Get practical strategies for improving at-risk students’ skills and increasing student success rates.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Problem-Based Learning: Benefits and Risks
Problem-based learning, the instructional approach in which carefully constructed, open-ended problems are used by groups of students to work through content to a solution, has gained a foothold in many quarters of higher education.
Tips for Improving Online Retention
Retention remains a knotty problem for distance education. Bob Nash manages instructional design for Coast Learning Systems, a division of Coastline Community College in Fountain Valley, California. He proposes that online retention is a difficult problem because it is “multi-variant” – there is no single cause that can be addressed by a single solution. So
Lessons Learned from a Bad Online Teaching Experience
A few years ago, our university started accelerating its distance learning program. Some professors designed courses that worked well, while others found that 100 percent Web delivery wasn’t effective for them.
