New students are more likely to drop out of online colleges if they take full courseloads than if they enroll part time, according to findings from a research project that is challenging conventional wisdom about student success.
But perhaps more important than that potentially game-changing nugget, researchers said, is how the project has chipped away at skepticism in higher education about the power of “big data.”
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/01/using-big-data-predict-online-student-success#ixzz21e2kffrP
Inside Higher Ed
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