Accounting Education in an Open Distance Learning Environment: Case Studies for Pervasive Skills Enhancement

Autor/inn/en	Reyneke, Yolande; Shuttleworth, Christina Cornelia
Titel	Accounting Education in an Open Distance Learning Environment: Case Studies for Pervasive Skills Enhancement
Quelle	In: Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 19 (2018) 3, S.140-155, Artikel 10 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1302-6488
Schlagwörter	Accounting; Business Administration Education; College Students; Open Education; Distance Education; Skill Development; Foreign Countries; Qualitative Research; College Faculty; Developing Nations; Case Method (Teaching Technique); Structured Interviews; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Collegestudent; Offene Erziehung; Offener Unterricht; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Fakultät; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Case method; Fallmethode; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Distance learning institutions allow access to many students who do not enjoy the luxury of studying fulltime at contact-based universities by providing flexibility in terms of time, space and finances. Globally, accountants are vital for the economy and it is important that higher education institutions empower them with the necessary skills to face the volatile working environment. Equipping accounting students with only discipline-specific knowledge, does not result in practice-ready accountants, which cause great concern for professional accounting bodies as well as employers. Pervasive skills are soft skills, also sometimes referred to as personal attributes allowing effective interaction between people. Using case studies to develop pervasive skills in accounting education, specifically in Open Distance Learning (ODL) institutions, is regarded as a fairly unexplored area. A qualitative research approach was followed whereby interviews were conducted with management members of the College of Accounting Sciences (CAS) at the University of South Africa (UNISA). The interviews provided insight into how ODL accounting educators in a developing country perceived the need to introduce a case study-based module to develop pervasive skills. It is recommended that the training of distance education accounting students should be adapted to include case studies for pervasive skills development. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01