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Peer reviewedDodds, Agnes E.; And Others – Distance Education, 1984
Describes a study of on-campus and external university students' perceptions of factors influencing external studies. Students identified family, job, and life circumstances as major influences; self-reliance and finances as advantages; limited library access as a disadvantage; and a preference for on-campus study or a combination of both.…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Research, External Degree Programs, Foreign Countries
Dodds, Agnes E.; Lawrence, Jeanette A. – 1981
A model to describe how adults work on university courses at a distance from campus was developed at an Australian university. The model was designed to describe how students define the task/goal and plan their study, based on G. Ploya's (1957) Heuristic and A. Newell's and H. A. Simon's (1972) General Problem Solver. Verbal reports were obtained…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, Course Objectives, Course Organization
Dodds, Agnes E.; And Others – 1981
Perceptions of Australian students studying independently at a distance regarding factors influencing their external studies were compared with attitudes of campus-based students. The 53 distance students and 51 on-campus students were enrolled in three social and political theory courses at Murdoch University. The mean age of the external…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Extension Education
