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Postgraduate Distance Education in University of Cape Coast, Ghana: Students' Perspectives
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Andoh, Raphael P. K.; Appiah, Robert; Agyei, Paul M. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
The study explored perceptions of postgraduate distance education students of University of Cape Coast (UCC). Specifically, associations between UCC postgraduate distance students' characteristics and satisfaction, as well as students' perceptions of physical facilities, staff-students relationship, facilitator quality, and student support…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries, Student Satisfaction
Students' and Teachers' Perceptions and Experiences of Course Scheduling in Undergraduate Sports Sciences Program: An Ethiopian Case Study
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Edo, Beshir; Tadesse, Tefera; Mulugeta, Eyerusalem – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2019
Flexibility in course scheduling is an integral part of institutional strategies used to increase student engagement and success, yet little research exists that examines scheduling as a key factor that determines students' experiences and educational outcomes. This study explored the undergraduate sport science students and their teachers at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Courses
Optimisation of the Planning of the Higher School Educational Process through Managing the Quality of the Term Schedule.
Buchvarov, S. I.; Ganashev, I. P. – 1988
This paper discusses the merits of developing a high school semester time-table, or schedule, as the final planning stage in the educational process. Such a schedule would provide a weekly breakdown list of all academic subjects, grade levels, teachers for each subject and grade, rooms, laboratories and other facilities, and resources, thereby…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Academic Calendars May Be Lengthened as Colleges Ponder Concerns about Quality.
Cage, Mary Crystal; Lederman, Douglas – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1993
Since the 1960s, many colleges and universities have shortened their school years. Driven by debate about the quality of undergraduate education and about whether students are getting their money's worth in college, some institutions are reexamining their academic calendars. Practical considerations, including student attendance patterns, make…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, College Administration, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Annotated Bibliography on Year-Round School Programs.
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Whitney, Howard, Comp.; Piele, Philip, Comp. – 1968
This annotated bibliography is a selected listing of 11 books and pamphlets, three dissertations, and 31 articles on year-round school programs published since 1962. The documents listed explore the effects on cost and educational quality of (1) staggered quarter plans, (2) quarter system plans, (3) staggered trimester plans, (4) split trimester…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Continuous Progress Plan, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Quality
On Old Practices and New Purposes in Education.
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Cross, K. Patricia – 1981
The dilemma of maintaining academic standards as well as open access policies is discussed in this paper with respect to the causes of and possible solutions to the problem. Trends leading to the standards/open access dilemma are first considered, including the dominant belief in the 1950's that education served to select and groom the most…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction