All incoming students have a first experience with their institution. This article reviews literature on adult education, online learning, and first-year student success to articulate the scope of experiences and programs that ought to be included in institutional efforts aimed at helping adult students be successful in their first year of online education. In addition, three approaches to support these online students in their first year of college are illustrated. Key areas surveyed are online orientation programs, online first-year experience courses, and the co-curricular engagement of online learners. Examination of these cases demonstrates that supporting online first-year students is quite important, particularly given the proliferation of online students and their lag in standard measures of success.

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在线第一年体验：定义和说明新现实

所有即将入学的学生都对他们的机构有第一次体验。本文回顾了有关成人教育、在线学习和一年级学生成功的文献，以阐明旨在帮助成年学生在第一年在线教育中取得成功的机构努力中应包含的经验和计划的范围。此外，还说明了在大学第一年支持这些在线学生的三种方法。调查的关键领域是在线迎新计划、在线一年级体验课程以及在线学习者的课外活动。对这些案例的检查表明，支持在线一年级学生非常重要，特别是考虑到在线学生的激增以及他们在衡量成功标准方面的滞后。