Massive open online courses (MOOCs) attract a large number of student registrations, but recent studies have shown that only a small fraction of these students complete their courses. Student dropouts are thus a major deterrent for the growth and success of MOOCs. We believe that understanding student engagement as a course progresses is essential for minimizing dropout rates. Formally defining...

BACKGROUND A significant proportion of university students drop out of their courses, representing a significant loss of resources in terms of funds invested in them, as well as loss of revenue to universities. AIMS To determine whether a history of recent or current mental health problems affected the likelihood of university students dropping out of their studies and, if so, whether additio...

This paper focuses on university-level education offered by methods of distance learning in the field of computers and aims at the investigation of the main causes for student dropouts. The presented study is based on the students of the Course of ‘‘Informatics’’, Faculty of Science and Technology of the Hellenic Open University and investigates the particularities of education provided through...

Information and communication technologies have been fulfilling a highly relevant role in the different fields of knowledge, addressing problems various disciplines; there is an increased capacity to identify patterns anomalies organization's data using mining; In this context, study aimed develop classification model for student dropout, applying machine learning with autoML method H2O.ai fram...

Objective This study aimed to compare the effects of two lifestyle intervention programs for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) prevention - traditional or interdisciplinary psychoeducation-based intervention - in daily habits and cardiometabolic risk factors and investigate the role of the psychoeducational approach for the retention of individuals in the program. Subjects and methods Between 2...

background: indicators of the level of education are the most important parameters infl uencing each country’s development. social indicators considered to be a determinant of one’s health consists of two constituents namely; (1) rate of students enrolled in elementary, guidance, secondary and higher education and (2) the rate of adult literacy. this study is aimed to evaluate the situation of ...