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Whitelock, Denise; Thorpe, Mary; Galley, Rebecca – Distance Education, 2015
Distance students are time poor and some drop out of their studies because they fall behind with coursework. This raises the issue of how course teams decide upon how many study hours should be included in a course. This article presents a number of Open University projects that have addressed student workload management and relates how learning…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Summative Evaluation, Distance Education, Time Management
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Moerkerke, George – Open Learning, 2015
Marketing specialists have recently redefined the roles customers and enterprises play in the economy. Modern customers are connected, informed, mobile, educated and internationally oriented. They seek enterprises that empower them to co-construct personalised experiences. This view of the customer-enterprise relationship has a great impact on the…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Individualized Instruction
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Dimri, Anil K. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2015
Present paper seeks to analyse the system of face to face programme delivery adopted by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for its distance learners over a period of two and half decades. The paper also analysed that with the growth in student enrolment, new schemes of face to face programme delivery was developed and implemented and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Distance Education, Educational Technology
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Chen, Qing; Panda, Santosh – Educational Media International, 2013
The recent developments within open educational resources (OERs) and open licensing have generated considerable interest among distance educators since open and distance learning is supposed to be the largest consumer/user of and contributor to OER. In China, given the policy of development and use of elaborate courses, conversion of radio and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Resources, Open Universities
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Mkhize, Peter; Mtsweni, Samuel; Buthelezi, Portia – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
Academic institutions such as the University of South Africa (Unisa) are using information and communication technology (ICT) in order to conduct their daily primary operations, which are teaching and learning. Unisa is the only distance learning university in South Africa and also in Africa. Unisa currently has the highest number of students on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrated Learning Systems, Distance Education, Open Universities
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Chaudhury, S. V. S.; Khare, Pankaj; Gupta, Sanjay; Garg, Suresh – Journal of Learning for Development, 2016
Towards the end of the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007 -2012), India catered to about 20 per cent of those in the age group 17 to 24 years. However, to achieve the threshold level of about 30 per cent by 2020, and address concerns that perpetuate inequalities in opportunities to higher education, the Government of India (GoI) formulated positive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Open Universities, Higher Education
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Lane, Andy; Caird, Sally; Weller, Martin – Open Praxis, 2014
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have recently become a much discussed development within higher education. Much of this debate focuses on the philosophical and operational similarities and differences between the types of MOOCs that have emerged to date, the learner completion rates and how they can be sustained. In contrast there has been…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis, Open Universities
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Qayyum, Adnan, Ed.; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf, Ed. – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2018
This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. It discusses how open and distance education is evolving in a digital age to reflect the needs and circumstances of national higher education systems in these countries, and explores…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Open Education, Distance Education
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Barberà, Elena; Gómez-Rey, Pilar; Fernández-Navarro, Francisco – Open Learning, 2016
This study examines success factors in online learning from the instructors' perspective. Academic success comprises not only student satisfaction and good grades, but also perception of learning and knowledge transfer. A systemic model of inputs-process-outputs of learning was used. A total of 322 online teachers from four different universities…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Online Courses, Academic Achievement, Open Universities
Castolo, Carmencita L. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2016
Tutorial is one of the student support services often provided by open and distance teaching institutions. These are regularly scheduled meetings between a tutor and his/here students which may include individual consultation sessions, either face-to-face or through telephone; a more formal "lecture format;" optimal participation in…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Open Universities
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Rosell-Aguilar, Fernando – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2015
Despite the fact that portability was perceived as one of the major benefits of podcasting as a teaching and learning tool, little evidence has been found of users taking advantage of this feature for academic use. This paper reports on a major study (1886 responses) of iTunes U users. The analysis compares the responses of those participants who…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Audio Equipment
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Richardson, John T. E. – Open Learning, 2015
This study compared outcomes in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students and nondisabled students taking courses by distance learning with the UK Open University in 2012. DHH students who had no additional disabilities were more likely to complete their courses than were nondisabled students, and they were just as likely to pass the courses that…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Comparative Analysis, Distance Education
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Hermans, Henry; Kalz, Marco; Koper, Rob – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present an e-learning system that integrates the use of concepts of virtual learning environments, personal learning environments, and social network sites. The system is based on a learning model which comprises and integrates three learning contexts for the adult learner: the formal, instructional…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Electronic Learning, Social Networks, Open Universities
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Costello, Eamon – Open Learning, 2013
The virtual learning environment (VLE) has grown to become a piece of complex infrastructure that is now deemed critical to higher educational provision. This paper looks at Moodle and its adoption in higher education. Moodle's origins, as an open source VLE, are investigated and its growth examined in the context of how higher educational…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Higher Education, Open Source Technology, Computer Software
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Alfadly, Ahmad Assaf – International Journal of Educational Management, 2013
Purpose: The integration of a Learning Management System (LMS) at the Arab Open University (AOU), Kuwait, opens new possibilities for online interaction between teachers and students. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the LMS at AOU, Kuwait as a communication tool in the E-learning system and to find the best automated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrated Learning Systems, Electronic Learning, Open Universities
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