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Demski, Jennifer – Campus Technology, 2011
American higher education is suffering from a dropout pandemic. About 30% of freshmen at four-year colleges don't return for their sophomore year, according to a 2010 report by the American Institutes for Research. Such a high failure rate threatens to make a mockery of President Obama's goal for the US to have the highest proportion of college…
Descriptors: Dropouts, College Graduates, Student Attrition, College Students
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Dirani, Khalil M.; Yoon, Seung Won – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
This case study explores an open distance learning program offered by the Information Technology and Computing (ITC) department at AOUJ, a major university in Jordan. It provides an overview of e-learning in the Arab region and explores factors that affect ODL quality in the Arab Open University in Jordan (AOUJ). The research utilized a…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Distance Education, Arabs, Information Technology
Liu, Chung-Tzer; Du, Timon C.; Kuo, Fonchu – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2007
To provide quality education, a university needs to make available a well-equipped computing center. However, such centers are expensive, and their provision is a problem for administrators when budgets are tight. Hence, it is important that money be invested in services that will enhance user satisfaction the most. This study explores the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, User Satisfaction (Information), Educational Quality, Foreign Countries