Introduction
Elearning struggles with high drop out rates. The concept of anytime/anywhere learning often becomes never/nowhere. As many corporations and schools have discovered, the online medium, while still dealing with issues similar to classrooms, faces unacceptable rates of drop outs and failures.
In order to improve student completion rates, organizations have several options:
- Design better learning resources,
- Improve teacher's/facilitator's skills,
- Improve student's capacity to learn through preparation for online learning.
This article focuses on the final point: preparing students for elearning. It is important to note, however, that many of the skills and habits listed here are applicable to any classroom. The divide between classrooms and online is sometimes artificial, and no where is this more true than in student preparation.
