
6 Strategies for Boosting Online Class Retention
Dr. Stephanie McSpirit reduced the drop-fail-withdrawal rate in her social statistics class by 50 percent. Here’s how.`
When Anabella Koen, a student at Eastern Kentucky University, realized she needed to take social statistics, she wasn’t exactly thrilled.
“I was absolutely terrified because I am not good at math,” says Koen, a junior studying social work.
Koen wasn’t alone in her anxiety about the online class. In fact, the course, which is a requirement for nursing and social work students, had become a barrier to graduation for some students and a had high drop-fail-withdraw rate.