¿Quién está en línea? A Five Year Longitudinal Study of Online Hispanic American Student Demographics
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https://doi.org/10.55420/2693.9193.v4.n1.149Keywords:
Internet users, distance learner, distance educationAbstract
In a five-year longitudinal study of Hispanic-American students taking online courses at a U.S. South Central University, the researchers sought to describe the demographic makeup of the typical online Hispanic-American student and the demographic makeup of the successful online Hispanic-American student. Using archived data it was determined that the profile of the online Hispanic-American students closely mirrored the profile of white populations.
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