Interactive Course Materials Associated with Student Outcomes Boost at Kennesaw State

Campus Technology: Kennesaw State University has seen a 48 percent reduction the DFWI (D, fail, withdraw, incomplete) rate in one of its core curriculum courses following a move to interactive courseware.

After the institution replaced its Foundations for Healthy Living course's traditional textbooks with a web-based learning platform from Perceivant, the DFWI rate dropped from 25 percent to 13 percent over a two-year period across all course delivery methods (including online, classroom and hybrid). The online section of the course saw an even bigger drop: from a DFWI rate of 35 percent to just 16 percent (a 55 percent reduction).

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