Distance Education Success Characteristics: Student, Instructor and Program Success Traits

Current socioeconomic changes in the world haveplaced higher demands on education to attend to avariety of societal needs. Advancements intechnologies have simplified access to informationand increased the number of individuals seeking tofurther their education with these new technologies. In response to the increasing demands for education,colleges and universities are turning to distanceeducation as a means to provide career training andonline study programs. However, these changes do notoffer a guarantee for a successful distance educationexperience. There are many challenges facingstudents and instructors in distance educationcourses among which are high dropout rates andfrustration with technologies. This book hasidentified student, instructor and program traitsthat lead to student online success. The traits aretried and proven and can be applied to any distanceeducation course to maximize student and instructorsuccess.