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Williams, Peter E.; Wall, Natalie; Fish, Wade W. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Adult professionals enroll in online graduate programs and rely on social support and on their ability to self-regulate to be successful. The literature on academic self-regulation among emerging adults (traditional college age) is ample, but we do not know how social support interacts with academic self-regulation among adult graduate students at…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Social Support Groups, Doctoral Programs, Online Courses
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Guri-Rosenblit, Sarah – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
This article examines the innovative past of the large-scale, single-mode open universities that follow the model of the UK Open University (UKOU), analyzes the main challenges which they are currently facing in the digital era, and concludes with highlighting leading prospects for their future operation. The establishment of the UKOU in 1969…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Educational History, Educational Trends, Distance Education