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Resources: Retention Challenges and Solutions

"Any institution, he maintained, demonstrates its quality in five inter-related areas - learning effectiveness, access, scale (capacity enrollment achieved through cost-effectiveness and institutional commitment), faculty satisfaction, and student satisfaction. These five have become OLC's Five Pillars of Quality Online Education, the building blocks which provide the support for successful online learning. "

"In an interview with Online Classroom, Frisch talked about the factors that she believes help her achieve such high retention rates."

"Included are a dozen strategies for improving online student retention for administrators and faculty."

Rubric for evaluating online courses

online course rubric

The following researched based best practices are recommended to demonstrate quality in online course design. In November 2010 the Distance Education Committee developed and approved an online course review tool for individual faculty and departments to use in identifying minimum course requirements and online course readiness.