Factors Affecting Online Course Completion:
A Case Study of an Online Workshop

Carolyn Gale

• Results from this thesis have been published, but not where you'd expect: in Cliff Stoll's latest book High Tech Heretic and the Boston Globe. There's my 20 seconds of fame, to add to the other 30 seconds...

• Updated the Introduction/Literature Review after presenting a related poster at Syllabus 99 (San Jose, July).

• Presented the entire case study at CAL 99: Virtuality in Education (London, March).  View the slideshow (PDF) from the talk.

This MS thesis was defended July 1998 at Vanderbilt University.  The text in all its boring glory follows.

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Method
• Chapter 3: Results
• Chapter 4: Discussion
• Appendix A: Survey
• Appendix B: Stringent and Basic Criteria Used in Evaluation
• Appendix C: Survey Qualitative Responses
• References

(The story of the subsequent travel disaster is here.)

Last modified 27 December 2000 // © 1998 Carolyn Gale // cgale@stanford.edu