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Aktaruzzaman, Md; Plunkett, Margaret – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
Bangladesh Open University (BOU), the sole distributor of distance education (DE) in Bangladesh, is regarded as one of the mega universities in the world. Nonetheless, the institution faces numerous issues and challenges that revolve around not only its administrative and academic operations, but also the lack of acknowledgement of its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Community Attitudes, Distance Education
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Rashid, Mohammad Mamunur; Jahan, Monira; Islam, Md. Anwarul; Ratna, Meherin Munjarin – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
The aim of this study is to investigate the present status of DCSA program focusing on student enrollment, dropout, and completion trends. The study tries to explore the factors that attract or pull students to enroll in the program and push them to dropout from the program. Secondary data analysis and interview are used to generate data of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Open Universities, Open Education
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Islam, Tofazzal – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
This paper examines how this mega-university offers increasing access to cost-effective, equitable and flexible higher education by analyzing data from primary and secondary sources, identifies challenges impacting the continued growth of enrollment in distance education, and outlines opportunities for increasing access to higher education through…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Distance Education, Foreign Countries