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Students With Disabilities in Distance Education: Characteristics, Course Enrollment and Completion, and Support Services

PublisherInternational Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication
Format330.7KB PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5Date added23 Jun 2004
Topics Online - Distance Education
Downloads30

This study presented in this paper describes the characteristics, enrollment, and completion rates of students with disabilities and the support services they received over a three-year period. Between 1998 and 2001 a total of 604 students with disabilities enrolled in undergraduate courses at Athabasca University, which represents 1.5% of the student population.

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