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Download full textJordan, Katy – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
The past two years have seen rapid development of massive open online courses (MOOCs) with the rise of a number of MOOC platforms. The scale of enrolment and participation in the earliest mainstream MOOC courses has garnered a good deal of media attention. However, data about how the enrolment and completion figures have changed since the early…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Open Universities, Open Source Technology, Enrollment Influences
Prinsloo, Paul; Slade, Sharon – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
Higher education, and more specifically, distance education, is in the midst of a rapidly changing environment. Higher education institutions increasingly rely on the harvesting and analyses of student data to inform key strategic decisions across a wide range of issues, including marketing, enrolment, curriculum development, the appointment of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Colleges, Higher Education
Choi, Hyoseon; Lee, Yekyung; Jung, Insung; Latchem, Colin – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Despite continuous efforts to increase retention, dropout rates are high in distance universities. The objectives of this study were: 1) to investigate the extent and causes of non re-enrollment at a mega university, Korea National Open University; and 2) to suggest actions to improve the retention of students, in general, and those with higher…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Dropout Prevention
Dadigamuwa, P. R.; Senanayake, Samans – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
The present study was carried out to determine the motivating factors for enrolling in an engineering study programme in open and distance learning (ODL) and the factors that affect the students' performance. The study was conducted with two convenient samples of students following distance learning courses in engineering technology, conducted by…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Engineering Education
Baxter, Jacqueline – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
Student retention and progression has exercised the HE sector for some time now, and there has been much research into the reasons why students drop out of Higher Education courses. (Allen, 2006; Buglear, 2009;). More recently the Higher Education Academy Grants Programme Briefing (HEFCE, 2010), outlined a number of areas that emergent project…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, School Holding Power, Open Universities
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
