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I don't know if it would make for better quality of education in general. People attending community college tend to have less digital access and need more enco
by jacalata 12y ago
I don't know if it would make for better quality of education in general. People attending community college tend to have less digital access and need more encouragement and support than your average college student. A number of studies on outcomes for classes taken online vs in-person at community colleges have been done, one of the biggest I know of being a study across the California community college system. They found that student dropout and failure rates were higher in online courses than regular in-person classes (after controlling for incoming background, etc) but that taking at least one online course made it more likely the student would graduate, probably because of enabling a course flow/meeting a requirement that was otherwise difficult to schedule.
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_514HJR.pdf http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_514HJR.pdf