Many Colleges Can’t Track Completion Rates, Online-Course Survey Finds
Wired Campus 2013-12-20
Summary:
Students are somewhat less likely to complete online courses than those taught in classrooms, a survey of online programs by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education has found. But the survey also found that many colleges have trouble keeping track of how many students complete courses of either kind.
Among 225 responses included in the survey, 65 percent “were not able to provide an on-campus rate and 55 percent did not report an online rate” for course completion, according to a ...