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How Mentors Can Improve Online Graduate Student Attrition Rates

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Do higher levels of mentoring support contribute to a successful academic graduate career? This article tackles mentoring for online graduate students and its relation to attrition rates focusing on: the benefits of successful mentoring, challenges of online mentoring programs, a review of a model of an online mentoring program, and establishing mentor-mentee relationships.

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    cover image eLearn
    eLearn  Volume 2015, Issue 1
    January 2015
    01-01-2015
    EISSN:1535-394X
    DOI:10.1145/2721891
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    • Published: 23 January 2015

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