Challenges and Achievements of Senior Citizen Pursuing Open and Distance Learning
In the era of technology and borderless world, open and distance learning has become a choice for many adults who wish to pursue tertiary education. In responding to this development, many higher education institutions, including Open University Malaysia, have designed various academic programmes...
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ASEAN Journal of Open and Distance Learning
2018
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| Online Access: | http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1375/1/library-document-1375.pdf https://ajodl.oum.edu.my/document/Previous/Volume10.No.2_2018/Article_3_Vol10,No.2,2018.pdf http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1375/ |
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| Institution: | Open University Malaysia |
| Summary: | In the era of technology and borderless world, open and distance learning has
become a choice for many adults who wish to pursue tertiary education. In
responding to this development, many higher education institutions, including
Open University Malaysia, have designed various academic programmes to
meet the needs of adult learners. Senior citizens naturally experience a
decline in their physical, cognitive, motor and memory abilities. Despite having
to face such challenges, many senior citizens have enrolled at the Open
University Malaysia. The objective of this study is to examine their academic
performance, analyse it by gender, age and zone of learning centres; and
identify the issues and challenges they faced. Senior citizens who graduated
from two schools, the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences (now known as
Cluster of Education and Social Sciences) and OUM Business School (now
known as Cluster of Business and Management), were included in this study.
Secondary data was used to analyse learners’ academic performance while
interviews were conducted to identify the challenges they faced. The findings
indicated that they had faced difficulties in relation to their health and
information technology skills but still performed well. (Abstract by authors) |
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