Carol Twigg's research on reducing drop-out rates through e-learning

Can drop-out rates be reduced?

Students drop out, fail or simply withdraw for a number of reasons. The US term (DFW - drop-failure-withdrawal) attempts to capture this. Significant decreases in the DFW figures, across a range of subjects, were seen in the University of Southern Maine, Drexel University, FGCU, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the University of New Mexico. The results of the Twigg study were interesting:

University of Southern Maine	28% to 19%
Drexel University	48% to 38%
FGCU	45% to 11%
Indiana University	39% to 25%
University of New Mexico.	42% to 25%