Student Retention | Origin: ED209
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Students as Customers --> Student Retention
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Without a humane connection to all, irregardless whether they happen to be in our classes or not, we would do well to observe, listen, and respond in ways to serve all the best that we can. We need to care and our students will respond to our authenticity and thus, learn and want to retain content.
Comment on Ken Campbell's post: Ken-Thank you for sharing this insight; it served to humanize the module in real time.
everyone learns differently
find out how adults learn helps
keeping retention is very important for good learning
Understanding that adult learners come from vastly different backgrounds and life scenarios is important when structuring your course as well as the routes to keep them on track.
Being aware of the factors that impact adult learners is very helpful for retention. The reasons why they enroll and drop out are different than the traditional student. Addressing these in the classroom and the institution will help with retention.
Using experience-based activities and scenarios from real world is a great teaching strategy for tech students.
It takes both istitutional academic factors and individual student situation to improve student retention. Equal consideration must be given to both .
Yes, I became one of those ones that ended up dropping an electrical engineering program. My wife had died of cancer and when that happened, kind of put a damper on my life. To an extent I still don't think I am over it, and I get depressed easily. so be careful when dealing with the older student.
higher education creates independence especially when the adult learning .
retention creates a level of confidence and comfortability during the learning process.
Being transparent and letting one's weakness vulnerable and where assistance can be renderedpossible.
adult learners are responsible for their learning. Situational, personal and instuitional barriers can deter this learning
many factors contribute to the inability to retain adult learners, it's not always academics, a large portion is principally non-academic.
The adult student has more than school to worry about. Their lives are much more complicated with other factors also needing their attention such as family, finances, medical issues.
I have discovered that more often than not if a student is failing or not showing, it is most likely an external factor rather than the subject matter. Life events such as a death, loss of vehicle, or hours change for work can be more impactful on their attendance and performance than anything in the class. We need to know what options there are for students in these situations.
