Who am I and what keeps me going? Profiling the distance learning student in higher education

Student retention and progression has exercised the HE sector for some time now, and there has been much research into the reasons why students drop out of Higher Education courses. (Allen, 2006; Buglear, 2009;). More recently the Higher Education Academy Grants Programme Briefing (HEFCE, 2010) , ou...

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Main Author: Jacqueline Aundree Baxter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2012-08-01
Series:International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
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Online Access:http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1283