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- Title
- Factors influencing students' choice of study mode : an Australian case study
- Related
- International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (11th : 2014) (25 - 27 October 2014 : Porto, Portugal)
- Related
- CELDA 2014 ; IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age : proceedings, p.195-203
- Publisher
- Lisbon, Portugal : International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS)
- Date
- 2014
- Author/Creator
- Ifenthaler, Dirk
- Author/Creator
- Gosper, Maree
- Author/Creator
- Bailey, Matthew
- Author/Creator
- Kretzschmar, Mandy
- Description
- Despite the expansion of online and blended learning, as well as open education, little research has been undertaken on what motivates students to enrol inparticular study modes at university level. This project addresses this gap in higher education research by exploring the reasons why humanities students choose to study through specific modes.The research was conducted between October 2013 and March 2014 administering three waves of data collection to over 700 students who were enrolled in humanities units being offered simultaneously through three different modes: on-campus, distance, and open and online. The findings suggest that students choose different enrolment modes based on factors such as personal, learning support, environment,advise and marketing, teaching and learning as well as logistics. However, the importance students ascribe to particular factors changes during their educational experience. This study found significant differences in the importance of factors betweeninitial and subsequent choices of enrolment mode, suggesting that the 'lived' experience of students at university influences their perception of which factors are important.
- Description
- 9 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 080100 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
- Subject Keyword
- 080600 Information Systems
- Subject Keyword
- 130300 Specialist Studies in Education
- Subject Keyword
- Educational pathways
- Subject Keyword
- study mode
- Subject Keyword
- higher education
- Subject Keyword
- Australia
- Subject Keyword
- humanities students
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Department of Modern History, Politics and Internat. Rels
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Learning and Teaching Centre
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/344623
- Identifier
- mq:38340
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781634399296
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2013011296
- Identifier
- mq_res-ext-2-s2.0-84925174982
- Language
- eng
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