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The role of SDGs in advancing implementation of sustainable development
Published in Ulisses Manuel de Miranda Azeiteiro, J. Paulo Davim, Higher Education and Sustainability, 2019
Albert Mawonde, Muchaiteyi Togo
Unisa is applauded for its programme qualification mix which is reaching out to a broad range of students irrespective of age, providing them with a chance to learn and appreciate sustainable development and SDGs. Distance education caters for thousands of students who access study material via the internet and courier services, thereby facilitating and breaking the boundaries of traditional institutions which enrol fewer students who can stay and attend classes on campus. The affordability of Unisa tuition fees compared to fulltime universities is another factor attracting more students, thus providing more students an opportunity for lifelong learning.
Learners’ Satisfaction with MOOCs: A Cross-Sectional Study
Published in Gopal Singh Latwal, Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Prerna Mahajan, Piet Kommers, Role of ICT in Higher Education, 2020
Gopal Singh Latwal, Leena Gupta
Distance education is the way to provide knowledge to learners through their teachers or trainers even when they are separated from a distance but connected through certain electronic media in such a manner that they can enhance their knowledge according to their time and place. This provides flexibility to the students who are not in a state to reach the school and college or those who have to work for their family or because of any other reason are not able to reach the learning place they get the opportunity to learn.
Ip Video Transport Applications
Published in Wes Simpson, Video Over IP, 2013
Distance education includes a range of technologies for teaching students who are physically separated from their instructors. Distance education has been used successfully in applications ranging from primary school through advanced graduate school as well as in corporate training and adult/continuing education programs.
Visible Learning and synchronous online lesson in higher education: a study in engineering education
Published in European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Gabriele Bertozzi, Claudia Paciarotti, Andrea Crivellini
Specifically, the object of this study is a characteristic modality of distance education and its sub-concept of online learning, namely the synchronous online lesson (Agostinelli 2019; Martin et al. 2021; Watts 2016). Distance education is a learning activity facilitated by information and communication technologies to reduce the distance between the actors involved in the learning process (Bozkurt 2019). It is a multifaceted frame and its related sub-concepts depend on both the modes of communication used (e.g. tools, forms, timing, interaction) and the specific goals of the courses and institutions (Wallace 2003). Engineering education is one of the disciplines where distance education is most widely used (Kocdar, Bozkurt, and Goru Dogan 2021), and in particular, the current so-called fifth generation, which consists of computer- and Internet-based virtual classes.
Anxiety scale for distance education: development and validation
Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2023
Mehmet Ramazanoğlu, Ali Çetin, Çelebi Uluyol
While education meets the learning needs of individuals and society, it also has certain goals such as adapting to changing and developing living conditions and providing learning in fast and enriched environments. To achieve these goals, distance education environments where information technologies are used effectively are inevitable (Özkul et al. 2020). According to Wedemeyer’s (1981) theory of independent study about distance education, students take greater responsibilities, self-paced learning is supported and individual differences are taken into account. Distance education can be defined as an education in which teachers and students are physically separated, teaching and learning activities are carried out at any time, without a time limit (Gökmen, Duman, and Horzum 2016).