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Download full textChaker, Rawad; Bachelet, Rémi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
This paper uses data mining from a French project management MOOC to study learners' performance (i.e., grades and persistence) based on a series of variables: age, educational background, socio-professional status, geographical area, gender, self- versus mandatory-enrollment, and learning intentions. Unlike most studies in this area, we focus on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Grades (Scholastic)
Li, Kam Cheong; Wong, Billy Tak-Ming – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Student persistence has long been a major challenge for open universities. Despite the evolution of open education, an overall high student attrition rate remains. This paper examines the changes and trends in factors related to student persistence in open universities. It reviews the empirical studies from the 1970s to the 2010s which reported…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Open Universities, Student Attrition, Educational Trends
Fraser, Joy; Fahlman, Dorothy; Arscott, Jane; Guillot, Isabelle – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Prior to undertaking a descriptive study on attrition and retention of students in two online undergraduate health administration and human service programs, a pilot test was conducted to assess the procedures for participant recruitment, usability of the survey questionnaire, and data collection processes. A retention model provided the…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Feasibility Studies, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
