Campuses are back open as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, but plenty of students continue to take classes online — especially at community colleges. But are these online students as engaged as those in traditional classes?
That was the research question posed in the latest Community College Survey of Student Engagement, a large-scale survey of more than 82,000 students across 181 community colleges.
The results of the survey, released this week, showed that students who took courses exclusively online were less likely to communicate with instructors and other students than students who take at least some courses in person.
