Abstract

LAGUARDIA, Josué  and  PORTELA, Margareth. Evasão na educação a distância. ETD [online]. 2009, vol.11, n.01, pp.349-379. ISSN 1676-2592.

The demand for distance courses among professionals who work in full or part time jobs and need an ongoing training in convenient, flexible and accessible ways anytime and anywhere faces with barriers to their permanence in those courses and consequently with high rates of dropout. The significance given to dropout and the reasons for its occurrence is due in large measure to the expansion of online education and its association to the quality of learning process in virtual environments. Nevertheless, the diversity of theoretical models that have been used, the large list of variables pointed out as predictors and the expressive number of investigations that present divergent results about the causes of dropout sign to the complex and multidimensional character of this phenomenon. This review article has the goals of presenting the different concepts and theoretical models and the variables identified in dropout studies on virtual environments, as well as the strategies to reduce it.

Keywords : Predictive Factors; Dropout Models; Distance Education.

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