Second Life Mashup Helps Boost Distance Ed Retention at Huntington JC

Second Life Mashup Helps Boost Distance Ed Retention at Huntington JC

Including the oft repeated pap that people don't like DE because it makes them feel distant.

"We are trying to overcome the distance you feel in distance education by being socially connected,"

This course more likely has high retention because some one with imagination gives a carp about it. Makes it an attractive course and hence students stick with it.

A Defense of In-Person Education :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

Here is an article that might be useful to add dimensions to KYD. From the perspective of an educator who doesn't like online education but uses it and enjoys major benefits from that usage. (Doesn't have to travel 2 hours for F2F classes for her PhD program)

The authors view is that F2F is better even though she is participating in a online PhD program.

A number of the comments are also interesting and point out that online education can be, and largely has been, very poorly implemented.
A Defense of In-Person Education :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs