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Problems and Prospects of Hybrid Learning in Higher Education
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José Bidarra; Vítor Rocio; Nuno Sousa; João Coutinho-Rodrigues – Open Learning, 2025
This study was initiated at a time of unprecedented uncertainty, as lecturers and educational institutions across the world tried to manage the move to online education as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic. It started with lecturers' perspectives of their performance during that time to identify innovative teaching strategies beyond the…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
A Systematic Review of Peer-Assisted Learning in Fully Online Higher Education Distance Learning Programmes
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Tibingana-Ahimbisibwe, Brenda; Willis, Sarah; Catherall, Sharon; Butler, Fran; Harrison, Roger – Open Learning, 2022
Peer-assisted learning (PAL) involves a student peer providing some form of support to a student mentee, usually participating at an earlier point in the same programme of study. PAL has been shown to have benefits for on-campus students. However, differences in on-campus and online programme delivery make it difficult to generalise these benefits…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Online Courses, Higher Education, Distance Education
A Sociotechnological Perspective of Distance Education Systems in Bangladesh, Australia and the UK
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Md. Aktaruzzaman; Margaret Plunkett – Open Learning, 2025
Offering education by distance provides an important sociological tool for equalising opportunities in developed nations. However, for developing nations and more particularly some of the least-developed countries in the world, it has the potential to play a much larger role in providing both basic and advanced educational opportunities and,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Access to Education, Cultural Differences
Experience of an Interactive, Autism-Specific Online Professional Development Training and Support Programme Delivered to Regional and Remote Areas
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Johnsson, Genevieve; Lincoln, Michelle; Bundy, Anita; Bulkeley, Kim – Open Learning, 2023
Training and support will be vital in developing and maintaining a skilled disability workforce in the roll-out of individualised disability funding across Australia. Technology has the potential to deliver training and support that is more accessible and cost-efficient in geographically isolated regions. The current qualitative study explored…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Faculty Development, Students with Disabilities, Educational Technology
Pervasive, Lifestyle-Integrated Mobile Learning for Distance Learners: An Analysis and Unexpected Results from a Podcasting Study
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Lee, Mark J. W.; Chan, Anthony – Open Learning, 2007
This article opens with a discussion of how and why mobile learning (m-learning) is purported to be the next step in the evolution of distance education, before looking at various perspectives on what m-learning constitutes. It critically examines the degree to which "true" m-learning has been achieved, by offering pedagogical value…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Distance Education, Life Style, Computer Uses in Education
Benign Educational Technology?
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Herrmann, Allan; Fox, Robert; Boyd, Anna – Open Learning, 1999
Uses Tenner's framework of unintended consequences of the introduction and use of technology and applies it to a case study in educational technology change at Curtin University (Western Australia). Discusses distance education, computer-mediated communication based on the World Wide Web, and revenge as a framework for identifying unintended…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education