Online students who discuss school plans with family have a better chance of finishing their degree, experts say.
It’s one thing to start your online degree, but it’s another to finish it.
Completion rates for online students are tough to track, since the U.S. Department of Education only began looking at the issue recently, but many instructors and school leaders say the numbers are low. A 2013 study by Babson Survey Research Group found that that 41 percent of chief academic officers reported "that retaining students was a greater problem for online courses than for face-to-face courses."
By Dawn Reiss
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