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Sunday, August 18, 2002
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?article_pk=5081&page_number_nb=1&title=COLUMN Staying the Course Lisa Neal, eLearning Magazine No one has exact numbers, but there is a general agreement that attrition is higher in online courses than in classroom-delivered courses. High drop-out rates have been attributed to the demographics of online students, the inexperience of online faculty, poorly designed e-learning technologies, flawed course design, and low bandwidth. Whatever the root cause, I believe the problem can be largely solved through accountability. But how can student accountability be achieved?...
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