The conclusions outline here (22 page PDF) accord with my own experience in online learning. "The most influential reasons were job and family commitment, workload, time management, and flexibility, indicating that employed students were the more severely affected fraction of the dropout population." The prevalence of these factors is what has led me in the past to encourage the development of local support centres - part of the Triad model - to help learners manage their way through these factors.
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