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Download full textMishra, Arundhati; Vijayshri; Garg, Suresh – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The undergraduate science programme was launched at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in 1991-92 with an enrolment of 1,210 students. The programme was well received, and enrolments increased over the years. However, the success rates have not kept pace with enrolment. In this paper, the authors report the results of an evaluation…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Physics, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Fozdar, Bharat Inder; Kumar, Lalita S. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2007
Student retention in open and distance learning (ODL) is comparatively poor to traditional education and, in some contexts, embarrassingly low. Literature on the subject of student retention in ODL indicates that even when interventions are designed and undertaken to improve student retention, they tend to fall short. Moreover, this area has not…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Student Attitudes, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Fozdar, Bharat Inder; Kumar, Lalita S.; Kannan, S. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2006
This paper presents a report on students who decided to drop out of the BSc program offered by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). This study was designed to determine the reasons leading to students' decisions to withdraw from the program. Identified and reported in this study are nine major reasons leading to drop out. Results of…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Foreign Countries
