Rewriting a History of Open Universities

This article reports eight distance teachers’ stories about teaching at two open universities over the past two decades with a focus on their perceptions and feelings about the changes in their teaching practice. This qualitative study employed a methodological approach called the autoethnographic i...

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Autor principal:	Kyungmee Lee
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2019
Materias:	open university distance education distance teacher history autoethnographic interview Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c341f03429a347d58eb1dfa7483848662021-12-02T19:25:28ZRewriting a History of Open Universities10.19173/irrodl.v20i3.40701492-3831https://doaj.org/article/c341f03429a347d58eb1dfa7483848662019-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/4070https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831This article reports eight distance teachers’ stories about teaching at two open universities over the past two decades with a focus on their perceptions and feelings about the changes in their teaching practice. This qualitative study employed a methodological approach called the autoethnographic interview, aiming to document more realistic histories of the open universities and to imagine a better future for those universities. As a result, the paper presents autobiographical narratives of distance teachers that dissent from the general historical accounts of open universities. These narratives are categorized into three interrelated themes: a) openness: excessive openness and a lost sense of mission; b) technological innovation: moving online and long-lasting resistance, and c) teaching: transactional interactions and feelings of loneliness. The paper then presents a discussion of useful implications for open universities, which can serve as a starting point for more meaningful discussions among distance educators in a time of change. Kyungmee LeeAthabasca University Pressarticleopen universitydistance educationdistance teacherhistoryautoethnographic interviewSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 20, Iss 4 (2019)
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description	This article reports eight distance teachers’ stories about teaching at two open universities over the past two decades with a focus on their perceptions and feelings about the changes in their teaching practice. This qualitative study employed a methodological approach called the autoethnographic interview, aiming to document more realistic histories of the open universities and to imagine a better future for those universities. As a result, the paper presents autobiographical narratives of distance teachers that dissent from the general historical accounts of open universities. These narratives are categorized into three interrelated themes: a) openness: excessive openness and a lost sense of mission; b) technological innovation: moving online and long-lasting resistance, and c) teaching: transactional interactions and feelings of loneliness. The paper then presents a discussion of useful implications for open universities, which can serve as a starting point for more meaningful discussions among distance educators in a time of change.
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Rewriting a History of Open Universities

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