Study of colleges shows ‘encouraging’ texts dramatically cut dropout rates

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Study of colleges shows ‘encouraging’ texts dramatically cut dropout rates
Paul Offord, FE Week, 2015/07/22

I think I want to see a few more studies before jumping to conclusions here, but wouldn't it be funny if the retention problem could be solved (or substantially impacted) simply by sending encouraging text messages. More...