Reduce Student Attrition in Online Education: A Metacognitive Mentoring Framework

Is student retention about giving faculty more quarterly, annual duties, responsibilities, to-do's, and check-list additions or should we be looking at different types of interactions with learners? Is the curriculum interactive? Are our interactions personalized? What types of engagement techniques are we using to help learners tune-in and interact with their peers more often? Are we using technology components that address learning styles, ability levels, and excite, engage, motivate, inspire, and challenge learners to persist? Is the classroom intuitively designed or confusing and difficult to navigate? This book outlines how to foster a sense of community and a higher level of student engagement in online classrooms.