A comparative study of dropout rates and causes for two different distance education courses

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Pierrakeas, Christos ^a   Xenos, Michalis ^a   Panagiotakopoulos, Christos ^b   Vergidis, Dimitris ^b  

^a HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Distance learning; Dropout causes; Dropout rates; University level education

Indexed keywords

EID: 15944420221     PISSN: 14923831     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v5i2.183     Document Type: Article

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