A Comparative Study of Dropout Rates and Causes for Two Different Distance Education Courses

This paper reports the results of a survey conducted to examine the root causes leading to student dropout at a Greek distance education university. Data was gathered from two different courses – an undergraduate course leading to a Bachelors degree in Informatics (characterized by high dropout rate...

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Main Authors: Christos Pierrakeas, Michalis Xenos, Christos Panagiotakopoulos, Dimitris Vergidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2004-08-01
Series:International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
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Online Access:http://www.irrodl.org/content/v5.2/pierrakeas-research.html