Profiles of Online Students and the Impact of Their University Experience

In recent decades, there has been a steady growth in the population who enter higher education in both brick-and-mortar and, in particular, online universities. This has led to an increase in heterogeneous student profiles in a relatively short period of time. The purpose of this paper was to explo...

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Autores principales:	Albert Sánchez-Gelabert, Riccardo Valente, Josep M Duart
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2020
Materias:	online university students student profiles distance higher education social conditions impact online education Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4862de2b836144f59eb9be27d5407b3f2021-12-02T19:25:57ZProfiles of Online Students and the Impact of Their University Experience10.19173/irrodl.v21i3.47841492-3831https://doaj.org/article/4862de2b836144f59eb9be27d5407b3f2020-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/4784https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 In recent decades, there has been a steady growth in the population who enter higher education in both brick-and-mortar and, in particular, online universities. This has led to an increase in heterogeneous student profiles in a relatively short period of time. The purpose of this paper was to explore the student profiles at a university that gives all its courses online, namely the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), and analyse students’ perceptions of their university experience. With this goal in mind, we constructed a student typology based on their social conditions and backgrounds using multiple correspondence analysis. Subsequently, an analysis of variance (Kruskall-Wallis test) was run to detect whether there were any differences in students’ perceptions of the impact of their university experience (N = 1850). Although the prevailing profile of students in the online university continues to reflect students with responsibilities outside of the university (e.g., work and/or family), new profiles have been observed, made up of younger students without any work or family responsibilities. In turn, younger students’ distinct perceptions of their university experience has been observed, depending on student profiles, with older students having more intrinsic perceptions, focused on learning and the acquisition of theoretical knowledge. Albert Sánchez-GelabertRiccardo ValenteJosep M DuartAthabasca University Pressarticleonline university studentsstudent profilesdistance higher educationsocial conditionsimpactonline educationSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 21, Iss 3 (2020)
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description	In recent decades, there has been a steady growth in the population who enter higher education in both brick-and-mortar and, in particular, online universities. This has led to an increase in heterogeneous student profiles in a relatively short period of time. The purpose of this paper was to explore the student profiles at a university that gives all its courses online, namely the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), and analyse students’ perceptions of their university experience. With this goal in mind, we constructed a student typology based on their social conditions and backgrounds using multiple correspondence analysis. Subsequently, an analysis of variance (Kruskall-Wallis test) was run to detect whether there were any differences in students’ perceptions of the impact of their university experience (N = 1850). Although the prevailing profile of students in the online university continues to reflect students with responsibilities outside of the university (e.g., work and/or family), new profiles have been observed, made up of younger students without any work or family responsibilities. In turn, younger students’ distinct perceptions of their university experience has been observed, depending on student profiles, with older students having more intrinsic perceptions, focused on learning and the acquisition of theoretical knowledge.
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title	Profiles of Online Students and the Impact of Their University Experience
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Profiles of Online Students and the Impact of Their University Experience

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