First-year students

Dropout, stopout, and time challenges in open online higher education: A qualitative study of the first-year student experience
Early dropout in online higher education remains a complex challenge intrinsically linked to stopout behaviour. Time poverty and time-related conflicts seem to be central for these phenomena; however, time issues have …
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Dropout, stopout, and time challenges in open online higher education: A qualitative study of the first-year student experience
Persistence and time challenges in an open online university: A case study of the experiences of first-year learners
Student persistence in the first year of studies is a crucial concern in online higher education. Recent accelerated growth in online programs due to the COVID pandemic has increased concerns over higher dropout rates, …
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Persistence and time challenges in an open online university: A case study of the experiences of first-year learners
Fostering retention in Online Higher Education: Students' perceptions of an intervention addressing their first-year experience
Dropout represents one of the greatest challenges faced by online higher education. This paper presents an institutional intervention aimed at fostering retention and success of first-year undergraduate students at the …
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Fostering retention in Online Higher Education: Students' perceptions of an intervention addressing their first-year experience
Evaluando el proceso para asegurar los resultados: Experiencia de una intervención institucional orientada a la retención de los estudiantes de primer año
En este trabajo se presenta una intervención a escala institucional llevada a cabo con el objetivo de mejorar la experiencia de los estudiantes de primer año en la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, una institución online …
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Evaluando el proceso para asegurar los resultados: Experiencia de una intervención institucional orientada a la retención de los estudiantes de primer año
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