Academics Telecommuting in Open and Distance Education Universities: Issues, challenges and opportunities

Research in distance and online education has focused on how to improve students: learning and support services. Faculty satisfaction, as one of the five pillars in Sloan-Consortium's quality framework for online education, has received less attention in research. Besides online teaching, littl...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Cheuk Fan Ng
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2006
Materias:	telecommuting telework distance education online education faculty work conditions Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/c9f892b724e341cc961604184cc98f54
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:c9f892b724e341cc961604184cc98f54
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c9f892b724e341cc961604184cc98f542021-12-02T19:25:29ZAcademics Telecommuting in Open and Distance Education Universities: Issues, challenges and opportunities10.19173/irrodl.v7i2.3001492-3831https://doaj.org/article/c9f892b724e341cc961604184cc98f542006-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/300https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Research in distance and online education has focused on how to improve students: learning and support services. Faculty satisfaction, as one of the five pillars in Sloan-Consortium's quality framework for online education, has received less attention in research. Besides online teaching, little research has examined the experiences of academics working in institutions where the faculty is dispersed geographically. Outside the academy, teleworking or telecommuting has become quite popular in recent years. Most research to-date has been conducted in information technology-related corporations and government departments, but hardly any in post-secondary educational institutions. Drawing on a literature review of research in telecommuting or teleworking, this paper discusses the potential benefits and drawbacks of telecommuting for academics and their families, and the potential opportunities for -- and challenges faced -- by their distance and online education institutions.Cheuk Fan NgAthabasca University Pressarticletelecommutingteleworkdistance educationonline educationfacultywork conditionsSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 7, Iss 2 (2006)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	telecommuting telework distance education online education faculty work conditions Special aspects of education LC8-6691
spellingShingle	telecommuting telework distance education online education faculty work conditions Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Cheuk Fan Ng Academics Telecommuting in Open and Distance Education Universities: Issues, challenges and opportunities
description	Research in distance and online education has focused on how to improve students: learning and support services. Faculty satisfaction, as one of the five pillars in Sloan-Consortium's quality framework for online education, has received less attention in research. Besides online teaching, little research has examined the experiences of academics working in institutions where the faculty is dispersed geographically. Outside the academy, teleworking or telecommuting has become quite popular in recent years. Most research to-date has been conducted in information technology-related corporations and government departments, but hardly any in post-secondary educational institutions. Drawing on a literature review of research in telecommuting or teleworking, this paper discusses the potential benefits and drawbacks of telecommuting for academics and their families, and the potential opportunities for -- and challenges faced -- by their distance and online education institutions.
format	article
author	Cheuk Fan Ng
author_facet	Cheuk Fan Ng
author_sort	Cheuk Fan Ng
title	Academics Telecommuting in Open and Distance Education Universities: Issues, challenges and opportunities
title_short	Academics Telecommuting in Open and Distance Education Universities: Issues, challenges and opportunities
title_full	Academics Telecommuting in Open and Distance Education Universities: Issues, challenges and opportunities
title_fullStr	Academics Telecommuting in Open and Distance Education Universities: Issues, challenges and opportunities
title_full_unstemmed	Academics Telecommuting in Open and Distance Education Universities: Issues, challenges and opportunities
title_sort	academics telecommuting in open and distance education universities: issues, challenges and opportunities
publisher	Athabasca University Press
publishDate	2006
url	https://doaj.org/article/c9f892b724e341cc961604184cc98f54
work_keys_str_mv	AT cheukfanng academicstelecommutinginopenanddistanceeducationuniversitiesissueschallengesandopportunities
_version_	1718376585951707136

Academics Telecommuting in Open and Distance Education Universities: Issues, challenges and opportunities

Ejemplares similares