Asian Association of Open Universities Journal: Volume 13 Issue 1 , Open Access

Advancing learning through smart learning analytics: a review of case studies

Kinshuk Kumar, Vivekanandan Vivekanandan

Smart learning analytics (Smart LA) – i.e. the process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting data on how students learn – has great potentials to support opportunistic…

Open Universities: the next phase

Alan Tait

The purpose of this paper is to report on research on the views of Presidents and Vice Chancellors of Open Universities of current threats and opportunities for their institutions…

Transforming and empowering higher education through Open and Distance Learning in India

Ritimoni Bordoloi

Higher education should bring up the multifaceted development of human resources by promoting the knowledge-enabled population that will bring socio-economic mobility, peace and…

Genre analysis of the “About Us” sections of Asian Association of Open Universities websites

Louise S. Villanueva, Mary Aizel C. Dolom, Jennifer S. Belen

This paper is a corpus-driven study of written electronic texts, particularly the “About Us” sections in the university websites of 41 members of the Asian Association of Open…

Applying quality tools to improve student retention supporting process: a case study from WOU

PohLean Chuah, PengKeat Lim

Student retention is important in the management of any university especially one which is not financially independent. Administrators in such institutions need to investigate…

Group reporting as a tool to enhance the quality of courses: The response of database students to online cooperative learning

Mari Anjeli Lubrica Crisanto

Group reporting, a form of cooperative learning, is a learning tool often employed in residential teaching to facilitate quality learning. Like other cooperative learning methods…

Research on the construction of seamless learning platform based on open education

Yongrong Xin, Xiuping Zuo, Qingping Huang

The implementation of the national education and lifelong education should break through the traditional learning mode in the digital era. A seamless learning environment is the…

Modelling the notions and dimensions of MOOCs

Maximus Gorky Sembiring

This report explored enriched notions and dimensions of quality massive open online courses (QMOOCs). The purpose of this paper is to visualize the quality measures adjacent to…