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Download full textMavroudi, Anna; Papanikolaou, Kyparisia – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
Higher education recently found itself in the unprecedented situation of being forced to rapidly switch to online education as a demand of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this article is to compare and contrast the experiences of university tutors who teach in two distance education universities with those who teach in a traditional university…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Li, Fengliang – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
The returns of traditional face-to-face education are widely analyzed, but there is a need for empirical studies on the returns of distance education. Further, comparative studies on returns of both traditional and distance education using high-quality data are rare. Since 1999, continuous and rapid expansions have occurred in the whole Higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Higher Education, Educational Quality
Li, Fengliang; Wang, Liang – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
Few empirical studies have analyzed the return to distance higher education in different academic disciplines. This study used quantitative methods, data from a nationwide survey, and Mincerian earnings function to analyze the return to distance higher education among different disciplines in China's labor market. Results were compared with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Labor Market
Ungerer, Leona M. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
Digital curation may be regarded as a core competency in higher education since it contributes to establishing a sense of metaliteracy (an essential requirement for optimally functioning in a modern media environment) among students. Digital curation is gradually finding its way into higher education curricula aimed at fostering social media…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education, Social Media, Informal Education
Tuul, Suvdmaa; Banzragch, Otgontugs; Saizmaa, Tsogzolmaa – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
This paper reviews the e-learning course development in selected universities of Mongolia and attempts to classify the e-learning programs that are in practice at the tertiary education level in the country. The given paper uses both secondary and primary sources. The authors determined what factors influence e-learning type classification and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Queiros, Dorothy R.; de Villiers, M. R. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
Online learning is a means of reaching marginalised and disadvantaged students within South Africa. Nevertheless, these students encounter obstacles in online learning. This research investigates South African students' opinions regarding online learning, culminating in a model of important connections (facets that connect students to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Higher Education, Disadvantaged
Schuwer, Robert; Gil-Jaurena, Inés; Aydin, Cengiz Hakan; Costello, Eamon; Dalsgaard, Christian; Brown, Mark; Jansen, Darco; Teixeira, Antonio – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) movement is the latest "big thing" in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) which threatens to transform Higher Education. Both opportunities and threats are extensively discussed in literature, comprising issues on opening up education for the whole world, pedagogy and online versus campus education.…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Mass Instruction, Open Universities, Higher Education
