Classes for this crowd (older non-traditional students) tend to be in the evening or during weekend. Because they have jobs, education is not something they do while they are unemployed with intention to drop it the moment they find jobs. Through, major reason why they drop out is that handling work, family and school and harder, more demotivating and more tiresome then handling just school.
Beyond broadening access, if you have to be somewhere in person you have to make it priority at that time - and you are not interrupted while you are there. In home study is very easily interrupted and easy to postpone due to other very real duties until it is too late.
The motivation hit from meeting other students is also missing.
Beyond broadening access, if you have to be somewhere in person you have to make it priority at that time - and you are not interrupted while you are there. In home study is very easily interrupted and easy to postpone due to other very real duties until it is too late.
The motivation hit from meeting other students is also missing.