Asian Association of Open Universities Journal: Volume 2 Issue 1 , Open Access

STUDENTS' PERSPECTIVE OF PRACTICAL WORK IN LEARNING SCIENCES VIA DISTANCE EDUCATION

Jason K.Y. Chan, Namin Shin

This article focuses on students' perspectives on various aspects of learning science at a distance, such as ‘expectations,’ ‘learning outcomes,’ and ‘satisfaction’. Two…

A TRACER STUDY OF A COHORT OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN OUSL: PERCEIVED BENEFITS FROM PARTICIPATION IN DEGREE PROGRAMMES

G.D. Lekamge, Tamara Weerasinghe, Rohana Ratnayake

An exploratory study involving students enrolled in Law and Science degree programmers of The Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) was conducted to identify students' progression…

THE CHALLENGES OF KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION THROUGH E-MODERATING AT UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA, INDONESIA CASE STUDY: TUTORIAL ONLINE IN MATHEMATICS COURSES

Suroyo, Atun Ismarwati

Implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in distance learning requires some efforts to succeed. Currently in using internet for learningassisted service…

BUILDING BILINGUAL BI-CONTINENTAL E-LEARNING COURSES

Zhanyang Zhang, Roberta Marsha Klibaner, Emile Chungtian Chi, Ke-Ping Yuan

The authors have been actively engaged in E-learning starting in 1996, at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, a public university on the East coast and Shanghai Television…

A CHALLENGE FOR THE OPEN AND DISTANCE EDUCATION IN TAIWAN

Hsieh, Ming Jui

Owing to fulfill the policy of the multi‐education system in Taiwan, the government adopt the open strategy of the high level education system, the number of universities is…

E-LEARNING CHALLENGES AS PERCEIVED BY COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: OPEN UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA'S EXPERIENCES

Abtar Kaur, Ansary Ahmed

E-learning has become ingrained in conversations that border around learning, however, how much and how effectively e-learning is practiced and understood is an issue that needs…

HIERARCHY OF E-LEARNING DELIVERY MECHANISM: A PARADIGM SHIFT

Anil K. Dimri, Amit Chaturvedi

In the present paper an attempt has been made to develop an e- learning programme delivery mechanism model for distance mode of learning so that effective student support services…

FACTORS AND PRACTICES IMPROVING STUDENT COMPLETION RATE: A COMPARISON OF TWO DISTANCE LEARNING COURSES

Rocky Y. K. Fan, Linda Y. K. Lee

Numerous approaches have been attempted to tackle the problem of student attrition in open and distance education. To increase the retention rate, many of these approaches…