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Sinclair, Stefanie – Open Learning, 2016
This case study critically evaluates benefits and challenges of a form of assessment included in a final year undergraduate Religious Studies Open University module, which combines a written essay task with a digital audio recording of a short oral presentation. Based on the analysis of student and tutor feedback and sample assignments, this study…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Undergraduate Study, Religious Education, Open Universities
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Slater, Rachel; Pearson, Victoria K.; Warren, James P.; Forbes, Tina – Open Learning, 2015
The Open University (OU) has an established infrastructure for supporting disabled students. Historically, the thrust of this has focused on providing accessible adjustments post-production. In 2012, the OU implemented securing greater accessibility (SeGA) to raise awareness and bring about an institutional change to curriculum design so that the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Distance Education, Access to Education
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Nnaka, Chibuogwu V. – African Higher Education Review, 2014
Higher education has proved to be a significant medium for the socio- economic, political, and technological development of any nation. It is absolutely necessary for equipping individuals with new knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Globally higher education, especially university education is faced with a lot of challenges and difficulties…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Open Universities
McNair, Stephen – Adults Learning, 2012
In the current climate, the launch of the new National Careers Service in England is a cheering ray of light in a gloomy world. Despite fierce constraints on public spending, the government has secured the resources, and political will, and the Skills Funding Agency is now funding a service, which provides online and phone guidance to adults and…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Foreign Countries, Careers, Guidance
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van Wyk, Micheal M. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This paper explores Economics student teachers' views on ePortfolios as an empowering tool to enhance self-directed learning in an online teacher education course. An interpretive phenomenological research approach was employed for data collection and a purposive convenient sampling technique was selected to collect data. Only Postgraduate…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Electronic Publishing, Portfolios (Background Materials), Student Empowerment
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Costley, Jamie; Lange, Christopher Henry – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2017
Purpose: Because student viewership of video lectures serves as an important aspect of e-learning environments, video lectures should be delivered in a way that enhances the learning experience. The delivery of video lectures through diverse forms of media is a useful approach, which may have an effect on student learning, satisfaction, engagement…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Lecture Method, Electronic Learning, Outcomes of Education
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Kirkup, Gill; Whitelegg, Elizabeth – Gender and Education, 2013
In 1983, the UK Open University (OU) offered its first women's/gender studies (WGS) course. Although a late entrant to the area, OU WGS courses were influential nationally and internationally for many feminists and WGS teachers and scholars. Not only did OU WGS courses have the largest WGS student cohort of any UK institution with over 8000…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Womens Studies, Feminism
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Koper, Rob – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
How do (potential) students differ in their preferences for the organization of online and distance courses and programs, can these differences be grouped into preference profiles, and are there any associations between these profiles and variables, such as achievement and dropout, that are relevant for the promotion and design of online and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses
Kassandrinou, Amanda; Angelaki, Christina; Mavroidis, Ilias – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2014
This study examines the presence of transactional distance among students, the factors affecting it, as well as the way it influences the learning process of students in a blended distance learning setting in Greece. The present study involved 12 postgraduate students of the Hellenic Open University (HOU). A qualitative research was conducted,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Blended Learning, Graduate Students
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Barker, Elton; Bissell, Chris; Hardwick, Lorna; Jones, Allan; Ridge, Mia; Wolffe, John – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
This article offers reflections arising from a recent colloquium at the Open University on the implications of the development of digital humanities for research in arts disciplines, and also for their interactions with computing and technology. Particular issues explored include the ways in which the digital turn in humanities research is also a…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Humanities, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Coelho, José; Teixeira, António; Nicolau, Paula Bacelar; Caeiro, Sandra; Rocio, Vitor – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
MOOCs are a recent phenomenon, although given their impact, they have been subject to a large debate. Several questions have been raised by researchers and educators alike regarding their sustainability, both economically and as an efficient mode of education provision. In this paper we contribute to this discussion by presenting a case study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Open Universities, Educational Technology
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Sembiring, Maximus Gorky – Open Praxis, 2015
Student satisfaction associated with persistence, academic performance, retention, and its relations to career advancement were examined. It was aimed at measuring service quality (Servqual) dimensions as a foundation of satisfaction and how, in what comportments, they were interrelated. The study was conducted under explanatory-design. Data was…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Structural Equation Models, Empathy, Reliability
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Secreto, Percia V.; Pamulaklakin, Rhodora L. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2015
Learner support in an open, distance and online learning is defined as "all activities and elements in education that respond to a known learner or group of learners, and which are designed to assist in the cognitive, affective, and systemic realms of the learning process" (Brindley, et. al, 2004). Teaching and tutoring, advising and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Open Universities
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Esterhuizen, Hennie – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
Frantic attempts of investing in technology to demonstrate willingness to educate for the knowledge society may result in failure to address the real requirements. This paper presents the main features of a framework for integrating Technology Enhanced Learning in Open Distance Learning at North-West University, South Africa. Support towards…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Distance Education, Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries
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Al-Masum, Md. Abdullah; Chowdhury, Saiful Islam – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2013
E-learning has broadly become an important enabler to promote distance education (DE) and lifelong learning in most of the developed countries, but in Bangladesh it is still a new successful progressive system for the learning communities. Distance education is thought to be introduced as an effective way of educating people of all sections in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Postsecondary Education
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