Asian Association of Open Universities Journal: Volume 8 Issue 1 , Open Access

Designing an online learning environment on Open Educational Resources for science education

Shironica Karunanayaka, Chandana Fernando, Vajira de Silva

The concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) is a major breakthrough in education, which promotes sharing, adaptation and contextualisation of course content. Promotion of…

Personalised system of instruction: The ODL way

Prakash Arumugam

All academic institutions subscribe to systems and methods that are deemed appropriate for the delivery of courses or programmes to the general masses. Some emphasise on physical…

Comparative study on the usage of an online plagiarism detection service when presenting distance learning courses

Loo Choo Hong, Tung Lai Cheng

The Internet opens a library of wealth to the student and educator but it also makes it easy for students to copy when writing assignments. In this paper, we will look at how…

Floundering among adult learners in classrooms: Fact or fallacy?

Nantha Kumar Subramaniam, Maheswari Kandasamy

Blended pedagogy is an important delivery mechanism for open and distance learning. Here, face-to-face meetings in the blended pedagogy model remain as an important platform for…

Determinants of students' loyalty at Universitas Terbuka

Maximus Gorky Sembiring

Factors affecting students' loyalty were explored in this paper. The objective of the study was to identify the most important factors involved in determining students' loyalty at…

The establishment of academic credit accumulation and transfer system: A case study of Shanghai Academic Credit Transfer and Accumulation Bank for Lifelong Education

Huikang Li, Yaoting Sun, Min Yang, Zhihui Wei

Nowadays, the construction of lifelong education system has become the common trend of educational development in many countries. In China, credit accumulation and transfer as one…

Faculty: A success factor in improving quality of distance learning

Muhammad Zaheer

The quality of the output (students) of any educational institution depends on many factors like curriculum, technology, infrastructure, assessment, students and its faculty. The…

Supportive role of the “CBCI Chair” at IGNOU in ODL programme development

Gracious Thomas

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) Chair at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) was established with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU…

Theoretical and practical dilemma of distance learning: The case of Universitas Terbuka Indonesia

Hanif Nurcholis, Ace Sriati Rachman

Universitas Terbuka (UT) was founded in 1984. It utilised the same learning mode as any other distance learning institutions. However, since 1987, UT has changed its mode to the…

Addressing the issues of low student enrollment — The case of the Kandy Regional Centre of the Open University of Sri Lanka

P.S.D. Aluwihare, R. Manoshika

Research was conducted to investigate the reasons behind low enrollment to programmes offered by the Faculty of Engineering Technology (FET) of the Open University of Sri Lanka…

Independent learning skill, competence and job performance of graduates of Universitas Terbuka: Perceptions of graduates and supervisors

Dewi Juliah Ratnaningsih

Open and distance education institutions such as Universitas Terbuka (UT) encourage independent learning among its students, which hopefully will lead to the ability of…