Social work educators seem to have mixed feelings about the development of open and distance learning in Britain and the USA. Open and distance learning has tended to be marginalised. It has been compared unfavourably to campus based programmes, but there has been a lack of research on this ...
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Present address: University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany These authors contributed equally to this work: Zsófia Boda and Georg Lorenz. Authors and Affiliations Department of Sociology and Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UK Zsófia Boda Institute...
Who profits from open source maintainers' work? Open source is critical to the tech industry, but nearly half of maintainers work unpaid -- and the situation is becoming untenable amid rising corporate use and security concerns. Continue Reading By Lev Craig, Site Editor Feature 03 Apr 2023...
others present both topical contents and learning concepts that were transmitted to the new ICT technology: Blended learning (no. 10), computer-assisted learning (no. 11), e-learning (no. 13), distance learning with online platforms like Moodle (no. 14), privately hosted online learning commun...
So, the parents of distance education students have lower educational status than parents of full-time students. This study provides evidence that distance education is important for social mobility. The proportion of students whose families have incomes higher than the average increase, perhaps because...
This article discusses the extension to which Open and Distance Learning (ODL) can improve the social competence and its aspects, the dominant factors affecting social competence, and strategy for the development of social competence of extension workers. Designed as an explanatory research, the ...
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Distance learningsocial work educationstudent course evaluationsThis study compared the student course evaluations of standard education and distance learning courses in the school of social work of one southern university. The sample included 14 distance learning (DL) and 122 standard education courses. ...
Decent work was proposed by International Labour Organization (ILO) as an institutional measure to address challenges faced by labor in the current competitive dynamic labor market. This study aims to investigate the impact of “decent work” dimensions on faculty members’ Innovative Work Behaviour (...