This analysis highlights course management issues and student preparedness affecting attrition in distance education, suggesting improvements are needed.
Distance education is being hailed as the next best thing to sliced bread. But is it really? Many problems exist with distance-delivered courses. Everything from course development and management to the student not being adequately prepared are problematic and result in high attrition rates in distance-delivered courses. Students initially perceive distance learning courses as easy. However, it may be this perception that ultimately results in the student dropping the course.
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