Online higher education

Persistence, dropout, and the time-factor in fully online higher education: A qualitative study with first-year students
Online higher education (OHE) continues to grow, yet its high dropout rates remain a pressing and complex problem. This research aimed at investigating and exploring how first-year, fully online OHE students experienced …
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Persistence, dropout, and the time-factor in fully online higher education: A qualitative study with first-year students
ESPRIA. Millora de l’Acompanyament dels Estudiants de Primer Any

El projecte ESPRIA (acrònim de l’expressió “EStudiants de PRImer Any”) és una intervenció institucional a gran escala de millora de l’acompanyament dels estudiants nouvinguts a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), …
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Institutional support to provide freshmen with flexible learning paths at course and semester level in open higher education
As an open university, at UOC there are nearly no enrolment requirements and, furthermore, students freely choose the courses they want to take each semester. But most of the students that choose UOC to combine their …
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Institutional support to provide freshmen with flexible learning paths at course and semester level in open higher education
The time factor in studies on dropout in online higher education: Initial review of the literature and future approaches
This paper addresses the factor of time in relation to dropout in online higher education (OHE), linking both to fully online models such as UOC’s. In OHE, time-related reasons are the most important factors for …
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The time factor in studies on dropout in online higher education: Initial review of the literature and future approaches
Approaches to teaching online: Exploring factors influencing teachers in a fully online university
In recent years there has been widespread interest in the implementation of online courses in universities. While most studies about online learning environments primarily focus on technology-related issues or …
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Approaches to teaching online: Exploring factors influencing teachers in a fully online university
Best practices and challenges in monitoring progress towards gender equality: The case of an online university
A central task of gender equality units at universities is to promote the availability of sex-disaggregated data on the composition and functioning of universities. Such data are essential to identify gender gaps and to …
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Best practices and challenges in monitoring progress towards gender equality: The case of an online university
La identidad del profesor como docente virtual: Roles, enfoques y sentimientos. El caso de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

La finalidad de esta investigación ha sido proporcionar una visión integradora de algunos componentes constitutivos de la identidad del profesor como docente en aulas virtuales universitarias, en una universidad con una …
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La identidad del profesor como docente virtual: Roles, enfoques y sentimientos. El caso de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Recomptes, tendències i oportunitats per a la intervenció
Comunicació presentada a la Jornada L’Abandonament a la UOC.
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Recomptes, tendències i oportunitats per a la intervenció
Factors influencing university instructors’ adoption of the conception of online teaching as a medium to promote learners’ collaboration in virtual learning environments
The purpose of the study was to build a model of the factors that influence the university instructors’ adoption of the conception of online teaching named “promoting the learners’ collaboration in virtual learning …
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Factors influencing university instructors’ adoption of the conception of online teaching as a medium to promote learners’ collaboration in virtual learning environments
Analysing feedback processes in an online teaching and learning environment: An exploratory study
Within the constructivist framework of online distance education the feedback process is considered a key element in teachers’ roles because it can promote the regulation of learning. Therefore, faced with the need to …
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Analysing feedback processes in an online teaching and learning environment: An exploratory study