Open Universities: Old Concepts and Contemporary Challenges

We begin by summarising Prasad’s (2018) work on the disconnect between the social purposes of open universities and their achievement. Next, we will revisit the concept of the iron triangle from the 1990s, which explores the three topics access, cost, and quality. How does it apply to distance educ...

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Autor principal:	John Sagar Daniel
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2019
Materias:	access cost quality open universities distance education open learning Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8f58ad1d6454446db9c1b8ad808af7802021-12-02T18:02:59ZOpen Universities: Old Concepts and Contemporary Challenges10.19173/irrodl.v20i3.40351492-3831https://doaj.org/article/8f58ad1d6454446db9c1b8ad808af7802019-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/4035https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 We begin by summarising Prasad’s (2018) work on the disconnect between the social purposes of open universities and their achievement. Next, we will revisit the concept of the iron triangle from the 1990s, which explores the three topics access, cost, and quality. How does it apply to distance education conducted with today’s technologies? A distinction made in the 1970s between independent and interactive learning activities helps us pursue this question further. A discussion among open university executive heads from around the world in 2017 sets the stage for the final section, which reflects on the current challenges facing open universities. How should they address the competition from the rapidly expanding online offerings of campus institutions? We review economic models, the use of technology, governance and management arrangements, and teaching. The successful systems conceived by the UK Open University in the late 1960s stimulated the creation of many other open universities. How should they be updated today? John Sagar DanielAthabasca University Pressarticleaccesscostqualityopen universitiesdistance educationopen learningSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 20, Iss 4 (2019)
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description	We begin by summarising Prasad’s (2018) work on the disconnect between the social purposes of open universities and their achievement. Next, we will revisit the concept of the iron triangle from the 1990s, which explores the three topics access, cost, and quality. How does it apply to distance education conducted with today’s technologies? A distinction made in the 1970s between independent and interactive learning activities helps us pursue this question further. A discussion among open university executive heads from around the world in 2017 sets the stage for the final section, which reflects on the current challenges facing open universities. How should they address the competition from the rapidly expanding online offerings of campus institutions? We review economic models, the use of technology, governance and management arrangements, and teaching. The successful systems conceived by the UK Open University in the late 1960s stimulated the creation of many other open universities. How should they be updated today?
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Open Universities: Old Concepts and Contemporary Challenges

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