Internet Learning Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 2017/Winter 2018 | Page 17

Internet Learning Journal
Table 3: Data Feature Values and Comparisons
When examining the findings,
we first see that students who choose
to blend their curriculum—mix both
online and on-ground courses within
a term—have a higher historical persistence
rate than those students who
take all of their courses in the classroom
or all online. This effect holds across
different types and sizes of institutions.
This leads us to the question of why this
might be so—why are students who
blend their curriculum persisting at a
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