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posted by janrinok on Wednesday May 06 2015, @06:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

AlterNet reports

Online instruction at community colleges isn't working--yet policymakers are continuing to fund programs to expand online courses at these schools, which primarily serve low-income minority students, and community college administrators are planning to offer more and more of them.

The latest salvo comes from researchers at the University of California-Davis, who found that community college students throughout California were 11 percent less likely to finish and pass a course if they opted to take the online version instead of the traditional face-to-face version of the same class. The still-unpublished paper, entitled Online Course-taking and Student Outcomes in California Community Colleges, was presented on April 18, 2015, at the American Educational Research Association's annual conference in Chicago.

[...]Community colleges [educate 45 percent of the nation's undergraduates] and [that sector] is under fire for low graduation rates.

[...]Despite the flexibility, it appears that many students find it hard to manage their time to complete the lectures and coursework throughout an entire semester.

[...]These are very different results from what researchers are finding for students at four-year colleges.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday May 07 2015, @12:59AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday May 07 2015, @12:59AM (#179726) Homepage

    No, you're retarded. That kind of thing doesn't happen in Newton-tier maths. Chances are that it's the socially retarded academics proofing those ineffective books. The Folks who proof texts do so because they can't get jobs in the real world working with common sense.

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