Innovation corner: Technology solutions for boosting retention

By Denny Carter. Student retention, once a back burner issue for many colleges and universities, has emerged as a pressing issue for campus decision makers, who have increasingly looked to technology for solutions. Concerns about retention are particularly acute in online courses. Forty-one percent of chief academic officers in a recent survey said they agreed that retaining students was a greater problem for online courses than for face-to-face classes. More...