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Because student success is contingent on retention, student persistence is a critical institutional focus. The use of technology (specifically, the LMS/CMS, coupled with learning analytics) has made student tracking and retention more efficient. Below are articles, presentations, and seminars that further discuss the growing use of technology to promote student retention.
Articles
- Building a Purpose Network to Increase Student Engagement and Retention, EDUCAUSE Review Online, August 2012. Fort Hays State University partnered with ConnectEDU to with the purpose of improving student and parent engagement, increasing student retention rates, and tracking and collecting success metrics.
- Signals: Using Academic Analytics to Promote Student Success, EDUCAUSE Review Online, July 2012. Using existing student data and current grade information, Purdue University created Signals, a system that gives students early and frequent performance notifications and helps faculty members steer students toward additional campus resources as needed.
- Two Case Studies of Learner Analytics in the University System of Maryland, EDUCAUSE Review Online, August 2012. In this article, The University of Maryland Eastern Shore describes actions it took to increase retention and graduation rates for an at-risk student population by using a dashboard that provides actual data as well as targets for key performance indicators specific to admission, retention, and progress toward graduation.
- The EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 33, Number 4, 2010 largely focuses on the topic of student retention. A few articles of particular interest in this issue include;
- Enhancing Student Learning and Retention with Blended Learning Class Guides, EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 33, Number 4, 2010
- How the ICCOC Uses Analytics to Increase Student Success, EDUCAUSEQuarterly Magazine, Volume 33, Number 4, 2010
- Defining IT’s Role in Mission-Critical Retention Initiatives, EDUCAUSEQuarterly Magazine, Volume 33, Number 4, 2010
- Sustaining Students: Retention Strategies in an Online Program, EDUCAUSEQuarterly Magazine, Volume 33, Number 4, 2010
Presentations and Seminars
- Student Success at Scale: What Have We Learned from Applying Technology to Persistent Challenges?, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, November 2012. The speaker presents the latest findings from multiple efforts to improve student engagement, learning, retention, and degree completion.
- Technology’s Role in the College Completion Agenda: An Introduction to Next Generation Learning Challenges, EDUCAUSE Live! December 3, 2010
- Success, Withdrawal, and Student Satisfaction When the Numbers are Very Large, ELI Annual Meeting, January 20, 2010
- Using Analytics to Intervene with Underperforming College Students, ELI Annual Meeting, January 20, 2010
March 2013
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Student Retention
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Next Generation Learning Challenges: Framing IT's Role in the College Completion Agenda
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October 19, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
In 2010, EDUCAUSE, in collaboration with the League for Innovation in the Community College, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, and the Council for Chief State School Officers,…
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Bringing E-Assessment to a Higher Maturity Level on a National Scale
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October 19, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Higher education in the Netherlands is faced with two problems: the high number of students that drop out, and the high workload on teaching staff. Both problems are being tackled by the initiation…
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ConnectYard: Redefining and Enhancing Student Engagement, Retention, and Support
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October 21, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
This panel will present three different institutional perspectives about ConnectYard, a communication tool that permits simultaneous use of e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, and texting. Panelists will di…
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The Effects of Student Coaching in College: An Evaluation of a Randomized Experiment in Student Mentoring
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March 7, 2011
College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not succeed in college is that they lack key information about how to be successful …
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Opening the Door to New Possibilities Through the Use of Analytics
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February 16, 2011
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A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
Since the time of "intelligent tutoring systems," educational technologists have explored methods to improve learning. Today with the emergence of analytics, an exciting set of tools is b…
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Turning the Tide Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges
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February 10, 2011
In 2004, Lumina Foundation for Education launched “Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count,” a national initiative aimed at improving success among community college students, particula…
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ELI Releases New White Paper on Learning Analytics
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May 10, 2012
ELI has released a new white paper, Learning Analytics: A Report on the ELI Focus Session , by Malcolm Brown, director, and Veronica Diaz, associate director, ELI. On April 11 a…
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Synthesis of the ELI 2012 Online Spring Focus Session
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May 9, 2012
Just four weeks ago the ELI 2012 Online Spring Focus Session on learning analytics finished. One of the presenters and participants, Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc of ARIES Laboratory, Univers…
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Technology’s Role in the College Completion Agenda: An Introduction to Next Generation Learning Challenges
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December 3, 2010
It is estimated that, by 2018, jobs requiring some kind of postsecondary education will make up 64 percent of the workforce. Yet, for an increasing number of young adults in the United States, a …
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Enhancing Student Learning and Retention with Blended Learning Class Guides
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December 15, 2010
Key Takeaways Experience has shown that well-designed hybrid courses enhance student learning and increase student retention, even in large introductory science classes. Blended learnin…
