Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Overcoming the Biggest Barrier to Student Success - Ron Bleed, Campus Technologies
In order to overcome the biggest barrier to student success, higher education must understand that the residential experience that is portrayed in many glorified forms and memories is a reality today for only a small minority. Although my research is from the Maricopa Community Colleges (AZ), the results are applicable to many other types of colleges--an estimated 87 percent of all students in the US now commute to their campuses, according to the National Clearinghouse for Commuter Programs, University of Maryland.

 



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