A Public-Private Partnership to Transform Online Education through High Levels of Academic Student Support

Autor/inn/en	Walsh, Chris; Mital, Abhinav; Ratcliff, Michael; Yap, Ana; Jamaledine, Zeina
Titel	A Public-Private Partnership to Transform Online Education through High Levels of Academic Student Support
Quelle	In: Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 36 (2020) 5, S.30-45 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1449-5554
Schlagwörter	Partnerships in Education; Electronic Learning; Distance Education; Academic Support Services; Graduate Study; Faculty Development; Learning Analytics; Foreign Countries; Learner Engagement; Student Satisfaction; Academic Achievement; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulpartnerschaft; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Ausland; Schulleistung; Australien
Abstract	Online education often struggles to maintain a consistent, high quality academic experience. High attrition rates and low student satisfaction continue to challenge higher education providers. We present an innovative public-private partnership that delivers a resources-sufficient model of fully online postgraduate education with high levels of academic student support in an unbundled approach. The partnership overcomes the challenges that plague online education by leveraging learning analytics to provide highly responsive student support, 7 days a week and in the evenings. The success of this model is its ability to ameliorate problems inherent in online education. This includes the lack of ongoing staff training and support to successfully teach online, staff availability when students need support and insufficient staff-student ratios. As the sector moves towards a digitally integrated future, our model of online education illustrates how a public-private partnership can provide online learning that is effective as measured by high rates of student retention and transition, satisfaction, and academic success. We argue our resources-sufficient model provides a transformational roadmap for scaled online learning that creatively reimagines supported, personalised, engaged and student-centred digital learning as the sector moves towards a digitally integrated future. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Ascilite Secretariat, P.O. Box 44, Figtree, NSW, Australia. Tel: +61-8-9367-1133; e-mail: info@ascilite.org.au; Web site: https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01