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Introduction
Students are entering Higher Education (HE)
Open, Distance Learning (ODL)
institutions
but are not persisting through to completion*
*(Barnes & Van Zyl, 2012, 2014; CHE, 2015; Directorate for Institutional Research, 2015; Scott, Yeld, & Hendry, 2007; Simpson, 2013;
Swanapoel et al., 2011; Visser & Van Zyl, 2013)
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