Dropout

Persistence, dropout, and the time-factor in fully online higher education: A qualitative study with first-year students
Online higher education (OHE) continues to grow, yet its high dropout rates remain a pressing and complex problem. This research aimed at investigating and exploring how first-year, fully online OHE students experienced …
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Persistence, dropout, and the time-factor in fully online higher education: A qualitative study with first-year students
ESPRIA. Millora de l’Acompanyament dels Estudiants de Primer Any

El projecte ESPRIA (acrònim de l’expressió “EStudiants de PRImer Any”) és una intervenció institucional a gran escala de millora de l’acompanyament dels estudiants nouvinguts a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), …
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Institutional support to provide freshmen with flexible learning paths at course and semester level in open higher education
As an open university, at UOC there are nearly no enrolment requirements and, furthermore, students freely choose the courses they want to take each semester. But most of the students that choose UOC to combine their …
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Institutional support to provide freshmen with flexible learning paths at course and semester level in open higher education
The time factor in studies on dropout in online higher education: Initial review of the literature and future approaches
This paper addresses the factor of time in relation to dropout in online higher education (OHE), linking both to fully online models such as UOC’s. In OHE, time-related reasons are the most important factors for …
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The time factor in studies on dropout in online higher education: Initial review of the literature and future approaches
They have gone, and now what? Understanding re-enrolment patterns in the Catalan public higher education system
Studies of student re-enrolment patterns in Higher Education constitute, along with traditional studies of persistence and dropout, a key element for improving the quality of Higher Education Institutions. However, these …
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They have gone, and now what? Understanding re-enrolment patterns in the Catalan public higher education system
Recomptes, tendències i oportunitats per a la intervenció
Comunicació presentada a la Jornada L’Abandonament a la UOC.
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Factors Affecting Students’ Re-enrollment at Public University System

The access of a greater percentage of the population to higher education and the need for greater levels of educational quality has increased the interest of universities in gaining a deeper understanding of access …
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Factors Affecting Students’ Re-enrollment at Public University System