Sam Battrick's Blog – November 2013 Archive (1)

We know students in online courses can feel isolated, right? They don’t have the easy access to campus-based support services, faculty, or even other students if they just want to vent! While student retention in online classes has improved greatly in the last decade, a recent study from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University reminds us that “Community-college students enrolled in online courses [still] fail and drop out more often than those whose coursework is…