Are Students Online Ready? How to Boost Student Success and Completion Rates

Thrust into online learning at scale in 2005 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina - a disaster that put 45 percent of its physical campus out of commission - New Orleans-based Delgado Community College experienced the aftershock of realizing that many of its students were not "online ready." Success rates - and therefore retention and completion rates - suffered just because of a student skills gap in online education. More...