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Martin Carnoy Brenda Jarillo Rabling Jonatan Castaño‐Muñoz Josep Maria Duart Montoliu Teresa Sancho‐Vinuesa 《Higher Education Quarterly》2012,66(3):248-271
The increasing opportunities created for adults by on‐line distance universities raise important issues about the payoff to such education. This study uses a unique set of survey data gathered by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in 2009 to estimate the earnings gains of the 2000–2003 cohorts of UOC students in six programmes of study over an average six‐year time frame between entering and one year after leaving their studies. It compares their gains with the earnings gains of comparable full‐time workers in the Spanish labour force by age, education level, and gender. The results show that those who studied in UOC's two‐year second‐cycle degree programmes had positive relative earnings gains but those in three‐year first‐cycle degree programmes did not. The study further discusses why adult learners might nevertheless study toward degrees for which payoffs appear low. 相似文献
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Josipa Roksa 《Research in higher education》2010,51(1):1-20
Growing accountability pressures, accompanied by a lack of readily accessible measures of institutional performance, have
led to an increasing focus on graduation rates. Although previous research has illuminated myriad factors influencing students’
likelihood of educational success, it has not paid adequate attention to how state contexts may shape student outcomes. I
build on the small but growing body of research exploring the role of state characteristics in facilitating student success
in higher education. Controlling for a range of state and individual attributes, I examine how one aspect of the state context––the
distribution of enrollments in 2 vs. 4-year public institutions––is related to bachelor’s degree attainment of students attending
public 4-year colleges and universities. The results suggest that the larger the proportion of students attending community
colleges in a state, the higher the probability of bachelor’s degree attainment at public 4-year institutions. This appears
to be a product of student sorting: the presence of community colleges facilitates sorting of students into higher education
in a way that is associated with higher degree completion at public 4-year institutions. These findings have important implications
for research on student outcomes and policies aimed at evaluating the performance of public 4-year institutions. 相似文献
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Hsiu-Ting Hung 《Teaching in Higher Education》2013,18(6):703-714
This study explored how social networking technology can be used to supplement face-to-face courses as a means of enhancing students' sense of community and, thus, to promote classroom communities of practice in the context of higher education. Data were collected from 67 students who enrolled in four face-to-face courses at two public universities in Taiwan. Findings indicated that the majority of participants developed strong feelings of social connectedness and expressed favorable feelings regarding their learning experiences in the classes where social networking sites were used as a supplementary tool. Learner difficulties and concerns of instructors about the educational use of social media are addressed with recommendations for future research and practice. 相似文献
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Ron Johnston David Manley Kelvyn Jones Richard Harris Anthony Hoare 《Higher Education Quarterly》2016,70(1):24-42
The United Kingdom's Department for Education has recently changed the nature of the AS‐level examinations normally taken by students aspiring to enter higher education degree courses one year into their post‐compulsory education. In the face of protests from universities and other institutions that this would both harm students’ progression towards the A‐level qualifications, on which entry to English universities is normally based, and make it difficult for universities determining which of their applicants were best placed to benefit from their degree courses, the Department conducted research which it claimed showed that degree outcome could be predicted as well from the results of GCSE examinations taken one year before AS‐levels as from AS‐levels themselves. This paper critiques those analyses and their conclusions showing, through a re‐analysis and extended interpretation of the Department's data, that AS‐levels provide a more reliable predictor of degree performance in 2011 than GCSEs and that many students who performed better at AS‐level than at GCSE gained a place, and performed well, at a university with high entrance standards. 相似文献
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自麻省理工学院开放课件运动以来,网络公开课逐渐成为了一种世界性的潮流。因此,如何建设本土化特色的网络公开课值得关注和思考。网络公开课是名校在网络上免费公开名师的优质教育资源,以便于感兴趣的学习者学习。其总体目标定位于开放共享优质教育资源,促进学习者学习,提高高等教育质量,搭建终身学习立交桥,构建学习型社会。其主要特点有：公益性、开放性、共享性、新颖性、自主性和数字化等。我国网络公开课建设具有政府支持、基础扎实、有可借鉴的经验等优势,但也存在理念上分歧、资金上缺乏、知识产权保护难等不足。我国网络公开课建设需处理好3个基本问题,即谁来开发网络公开课,为谁开发网络公开课及怎样开发网络公开课。 相似文献
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Katrina A. Meyer 《Innovative Higher Education》2006,31(3):175-186
Ten students in a graduate-level course on Historical and Policy Perspectives in Higher Education held face-to-face and online discussions on five controversial topics: diversity, academic freedom, political tolerance, affirmative action, and gender. Upon completion of each discussion, they assessed their comfort, honesty, concern for others’ feelings, similarity of feelings to others, and willingness to disagree and then compared the face-to-face and online discussions on these measures. Students’ assessments are complex and indicate that some topics did elicit feelings of discomfort, concern for others’ feelings, and willingness to disagree in the face-to-face discussions. However, despite these feelings, the majority of students continued to prefer the face-to-face discussions. Online discussions were valued to a lesser extent, but a consistent minority of students were more comfortable in that setting. The age and race of the student also created differences in responses.
Dr. Katrina Meyer is an associate professor of Higher and Adult Education at The University of Memphis. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Washington, and her research interests include online learning and virtual universities. 相似文献
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Colleges and universities are increasingly using information technologies to enhance the learning environment. Many educational
institutions offer Internet-based on-line courses in an effort to meet the educational needs of students. The primary goal
of this research was to determine if there is a relationship between students' preferred learning environment (i.e. face-to-face
or on-line) and their learning style. The secondary goal was to determine if there were any differences in the academic success
of students in the face-to-face versus on-line sections. Participants were adult (ages 22+ years), non-traditional computer
science students given the option to take a face-to-face lecture-based or an on-line Internet-based computer science course.
Results revealed that computer science students in the face-to-face learning environment were more likely to have the Assimilator
learning-style, whereas computer science students in the on-line Internet-based learning environment were more likely to have
the Converger learning-style. Student academic success did not reliably differ as a function of learning environment selection.
Implications of these results are discussed in terms of learning style characteristics of computer science students, learning
styles and gender differences and implications of student academic success in on-line vs face-to-face environments.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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ABSTRACT Ensuring that students of all backgrounds are smoothly transitioned through the stages of access, participation and completion in higher education has been the focus of much public policy and research in recent decades. Subsequently, public policy discourse treats those who do not complete their higher education degrees as unsuccessful, despite a lack of research considering the beneficial outcomes of non-completing students. Evidence of beneficial outcomes of higher education participation without completion has potential to challenge the deficit-centric discourse of completion dependent on a binary view of success and failure. This article details a critical discourse analysis of responses to a 2017 survey of university non-completers asked ‘were there any benefits from the time you spent doing an [sic] incomplete degree?’. This study finds that non-completers experience a wide range of benefits from incomplete studies despite the dominant discourse discounting their experiences as unsuccessful. Additionally, this study presents a critique of framing surveys of non-completing students within the normative bounds of success as completion in higher education, and instead calls for a more nuanced construction of success in higher education. 相似文献
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Josipa Roksa 《Higher Education》2011,61(3):293-308
While much stratification research has focused on understanding the patterns and consequences of differentiation, previous
studies have not considered similarly important variation in students’ trajectories through higher education, and particularly
their participation in the labor market. Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth of 1997 (NLSY97) indicate
that degree completion in a differentiated system of higher education is related to students’ employment patterns. Students
who begin their educational journeys in community colleges as well as students from less advantaged family backgrounds are
more likely to dedicate longer hours to paid employment, which has negative consequences for degree attainment. Employment
patterns contribute to gaps in degree completion among students from different family backgrounds and to a lesser extent to
inequality in degree completion between students beginning postsecondary education in community colleges vs. 4-year institutions.
A more complex set of patterns is revealed when examining the relationship between employment, family background, and degree
attainment across different institutional types and educational credentials. These findings highlight the importance of developing
a more comprehensive understanding of inequality in educational attainment by considering the relationship between differentiation
and work. 相似文献
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Jennifer Hall Rivera 《Open Learning》2016,31(3):209-218
An increase in online education is causing science educators to evaluate student cognitive understanding after completing virtual, computer-simulated laboratories. Online education has demonstrated comparable learning gains when analysed to those of the traditional classroom, but research is mixed when reviewing students’ ability to manipulate tangible laboratory equipment after participating in online experimentation. The question remains, are students who are exclusively enrolled in online science courses equipped with the cognitive ability to operate laboratory equipment within a physical laboratory? When considering the optimal learning environment for science majors, educators have discovered the blended classroom may provide the perfect opportunity to combine the benefits of face-to-face instruction and feedback with the reinforcement of scientific theory through technology integration. New advances in virtual education provide promising examples of enhancing the online classroom laboratory in all scientific disciplines. Further insight into the blended classroom has the potential to influence the field of education towards an optimal learning environment for science majors in colleges and universities. 相似文献
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《Africa Education Review》2013,10(2):244-262
Abstract The development and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education has led to most universities incorporating elements of online learning into their traditional classrooms via the use of a Learning Management System (LMS) (Burrell-Ihlow 2009, Angeli 2005, Salisbury and Ellis 2003). However, it is not known how well students who are used to traditional face-to-face learning environments and who do not necessarily prefer online environments adapt when placed in such environments. This study investigated the attitudes of students towards the use of a LMS in a traditional face-to-face classroom. The combination of the LMS and the face-to-face mode of instruction were considered as a “mixed learning mode of instruction”. The study aimed at assessing the attitudes of students towards a mixed learning mode of instruction. The results showed a positive trend towards the acceptance of a mixed learning mode of instruction for learning. Many students involved in this mode said that it was the mixed mode of delivery that enabled them to benefit from this course, have more contact with the lecturer and were motivated to work. Most students felt that the efficiency and quality of education had improved. These results suggest that more courses should be offered using a mixed mode delivery. 相似文献
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Double degrees (also called joint or combined degrees)—programs of study combining two bachelor degrees—are increasingly popular
in Australian universities, particularly among women. A case study using qualitative and quantitative surveys of current and
past double degree students is presented. The study indicates that double degrees benefit students in providing a broad education
and increasing skills and options. However, benefits are not fully realised because of administrative difficulties, lack of
support and absence of ‘learning communities’. These problems arise because double degrees sit outside the disciplinary structure
of universities. As such, however, double degrees have potential to provide transdisciplinary education. We suggest initiatives
that would improve the experience, performance and persistence of double degree students. They would also build the skills
of integration, boundary work, communication and teamwork associated with transdisciplinarity. These skills not only equip
students for a range of employment; they are sorely needed in society.
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《The Internet and Higher Education》2010,13(4):292-297
Which aspects of e-learning courses do students experience as being favorable for learning? When do students prefer online or face-to-face learning components? These questions were the subject of a research study in a sample of 2196 students from 29 Austrian universities. The students completed a questionnaire on their experiences attending an e-learning course, on their perceived achievements, and on their preferences for online or face-to-face learning components. Students appreciated online learning for its potential in providing a clear and coherent structure of the learning material, in supporting self-regulated learning, and in distributing information. They preferred face-to-face learning for communication purposes in which a shared understanding has to be derived or in which interpersonal relations are to be established. An especially important result concerns students' perceptions of their learning achievements: When conceptual knowledge in the subject matter or skills in the application of one's knowledge are to be acquired, students prefer face-to-face learning. However, when skills in self-regulated learning are to be acquired, students advocate online learning. 相似文献
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William E. Knight 《Research in higher education》1993,34(1):41-54
This study investigated differences in freshmen to senior student general education gains across institutions with varying patterns of general education requirements using a mixed-effect structural equation model. The subjects were 6,409 students at 34 nation-wide colleges and universities. Students attending institutions where less than 40 percent of undergraduate curricular requirements were devoted to general education and where there was not equal distribution of general education courses within the requirement were found to have significantly higher general education gains than did students who attended institutions where 40 percent or more of the undergraduate curriculum was devoted to general education and there was equal distribution of courses within the general education requirement.Presented at the Association for Institutional Research Annual Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, May 10–13, 1992. 相似文献
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Jean-François Giret 《European Journal of Education》2011,46(2):244-256
This article analyses whether graduates in university vocational courses benefited from better labour market outcomes in France than those in academic courses. We focus on bachelor degrees in France, comparing ‘general’ or ‘academic’ degrees with ‘vocational’ degrees. The vocational bachelor degree was created in 1999 in the continuity of the education policy of expanding the number of vocational courses in French universities and in the framework of the Bologna Process. It aimed to lead to a new qualification at the intermediate level between the qualified technicians’ diplomas and the engineering or senior management diplomas. We use a French survey on higher education leavers in 2001 who were interviewed in 2004. In order to take into account the selection in the vocational track, we applied statistical methods which allow us to compare graduates with similar characteristics. Our results show that education mismatch is less great for vocational bachelor graduates, which is coherent with the idea that the vocational track better responds to employers' needs. In addition, we find empirical evidence that vocational bachelors tend to be associated with higher pay even after accounting for the heterogeneity of students. Our last findings suggest that the university-employer link specifically developed for the vocational bachelor course influences the way vocational graduates find their job: they are significantly more likely to use university-based contacts to obtain their first jobs. 相似文献
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In this paper we study the factors that influence both dropout and (4-year) degree completion throughout university by applying the set of discrete-time methods for competing risks in event history analysis, as described in Scott and Kennedy (2005). In the French-speaking Belgian community, participation rates are very high given that higher education is largely financed through public funds, but at the same time, the system performs very poorly in terms of degree completion. In this particular context, we explore two main questions. First, to what extent is socioeconomic background still a determinant of success for academic careers in a system that, by construction, aims to eliminate economic barriers to higher education? Second, given the high proportion of students who fail their first year and are unable to move to their second year, can authorities promote degree completion and decrease dropout among students who have already experienced a failure? Using the competing risks model, we show that in spite of low entry barriers, students coming from lower socioeconomic background are more vulnerable to dropout along the whole academic path because of financial constraints that prevent them from re-enrolling. Also, our results reveal that, after a failed year, a significantly higher proportion of students who re-enroll in a different field obtain a degree compared to those that re-enroll in the same field, suggesting that universities should rethink the mechanisms available to manage failure and guide student choices. 相似文献
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对于大规模的高等教育在线教学质量评价众说纷纭。已有的研究调查发现本科学生大体上更偏好线下教学。然而，学生的偏好只反映了其主观意愿的一面。利用“中国高水平大学课程教与学追踪调查”（CUCE）数据库，得到中国三所顶尖大学的同一批课程疫情前的6264份线下教学样本及2020年春季学期的4451份线上教学样本，构成授课内容与教师均相同的对照组。统计分析显示，在课堂体验、学业投入和课程满意度三方面，学生的主观偏好均倾向于线下教学。线上线下对照组比较分析却发现，线上教学在这三方面的教学效果显著高于线下教学，效应值均低于0.04。学生主观偏好与对照组比较两种评价路径得出不同的质量评价结果。由于应急情况下师生为线上教学付出大量投入，在有限程度上提升了教学质量，但教学效率可能偏低。低效应值也表明课程质量不取决于线上或线下教学形式。常态下在线教学的质量还有待进一步检验。 相似文献
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Distance education has historically had lower completion rates. Several models of persistence, for on-campus students, indicate that students’ financial status affects their decision to persist. This study involved providing distance education students’ financial aid in the form of institutional scholarships (N = 545) at Penn State University in the United States. The recipients were students who were not overachievers and not at-risk of failing, but somewhere in the middle. The purpose of the study was to test if receiving financial aid was related to students’ persistence. Using logistic regression and Chi-square analysis, this study found that scholarship-receiving students with higher financial need were two times more likely to persist in their studies than those with lower financial need. Results suggest that there is a positive relationship between providing even small financial aid to students with high-financial need and their persistence in their studies. 相似文献
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Engaging Undergraduate Students in Research Activities: Are Research Universities Doing a Better Job? 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Engaging undergraduate students in research activities has been advocated as an innovative strategy to improve American higher
education (Boyer Commission, Reinventing undergraduate education: A blueprint for America’s research universities. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stony Brook, NY, 1998). This study compared the frequency of undergraduate
student research experiences at different types of colleges and universities from the early 1990s through 2004. The results
indicate that the frequency of student research experiences increased since 1998 at all types of institutions and that students
at research universities were not more likely than their counterparts elsewhere to have such experiences. The findings were
consistent across major fields. To live up to their claims, research universities must find additional ways to involve undergraduates
in research with faculty members.
Shouping Hu is Associate Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University. He received his M.S. degree in Economics and Ph.D.
in Higher Education from Indiana University. His research and scholarship focuses on postsecondary access and persistence,
college student experience, and higher education finance.
George D. Kuh is Chancellor’s Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University
Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Iowa. His research focuses on the quality of undergraduate
education.
Joy Gaston Gayles is Associate Professor in Adult and Higher Education at North Carolina State University. She received her Bachelor’s degree
from Shaw University, Master’s degree from Auburn University, and Ph.D. in Higher Education from The Ohio State University.
Her research focuses on college student learning and development. 相似文献