Conference Paper
Non-completion in distance education in higher education
Fecha
2005Autor
Vasquez-Martinez, C.R.
Institución
Resumen
The paper reports a study of non-completion of a distance education programme in a Colombian University to explore the reasons for drop-out The study is based upon the conception that non-completion involves the student's failure to complete a particular cycle of education, but that this is a collective rather than an individual phenomenon, and has causes both inside and outside the educational system. The study concludes that causes of non-completion are many and varied, and that they cannot easily be separated in terms of their explanatory power.