Should We Be Teaching or Diagnosing? An E-Learning Paradox

Giannakopoulos, Apostolos

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3169633

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“…With respect to retention [26] identified four types of retention: institutional, system, academic discipline and course. The institutional retention is most commonly used by universities and deals with the percentage of students who return to the institution year after year.…”

Section: A Access Retention Persistence and Graduationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…System retention consists of tracking of students who enroll at universities. Hagedorn [26] admits that this type is difficult to implement and costly. Retention within an academic major is focused on retaining the student in that disciple.…”

Section: A Access Retention Persistence and Graduationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Giannakopoulos [32] had suggested that it is possible to select a group of students and allow them to study for one year free. Then the successful ones to repeat the course and statistically speaking there will be a high pass rate and the prospect of graduating increases since most of the attrition occurs in the first year.…”

Section: A Access Retention Persistence and Graduationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Attrition in Higher Education: From a Problem to a Wicked Problem or a Pure Case of Economics?

2017

Nov. 27-28, 2017 South Africa ASETWM-17, RCABES-17 &Amp; EBHSSS-17

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Abstract-The problem of attrition in higher education has plagued higher learning institutions for the past 50 years. Governments and institutions around the world and in South Africa having accepted that graduation rates are far from acceptable, have tried to introduce certain interventions that could minimise the impact of attrition. Some progress has been made but so far no real solution has been found, perhaps due to a great number of factors that affect academic success. More than 130 factors have been identified.

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Section: A Access Retention Persistence and Graduationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Access Retention Persistence and Graduationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Access Retention Persistence and Graduationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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