INCREASED INTERACTIVITY TO REDUCE DROP-OUT RATE ON DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMS

This case study will be limited to the experience made at the School of Management (MAM) at BTH, predominantly with their MBA programs. MAM has been giving distance courses over the Internet for five years, and video-conference support on some courses for almost as long. So far each teacher has been using the technological platform and pedagogic he or she feels most comfortable with. Due to this policy many teachers have refrained from using high-interactive solutions like videoconferences and streaming. As the schools management has become more aware of the correlation between drop-out rate and interactivity, there has been a......