Course Completion Rates among Distance Learners: Identifying Possible Methods to Improve Retention

By Rob Nash. 2005

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The Technological Dimension of a Massive Open Online Course: The Case of the CCK08 Course Tools (2009, background): “Nash (2005) quotes several studies in which authors emphasize the impact of factors external to the academic environment to explain distance learners‟ drop-out rates.”
Student perceptions of support services and the influence of targeted interventions on retention in distance education (2010, background): “Finally, Nash (2005) has pointed out that even comprehensive support services offered to distance learners may have disappointing levels of use, perhaps because many distance learners are themselves independent or else are under time pressures that do not give them scope to make use of these…”
Strategies to Engage Online Students and Reduce Attrition Rates. (2007, methodology): “In addition, the survey was a method of generating feedback from the student on ways to improve the online process or provide students with additional services in order to help them succeed (Nash, 2005).”
Factors Associated With Student Persistence in an Online Program of Study: A Review of the Literature (2012, background): “Nash, 2005 478 students from Coastline Community College enrolled in a distance learning course.”