COMBINING COMPUTER ANIMATION AND TELEVISION PRESENTATION: A CASE STUDY – THE OPEN UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICS COURSE

This case study demonstrates the issues and advantages in encouraging students to take responsibility for their learning and to be better prepared both in terms of knowledge and expectations for their study. The study outlines the improvement in retention achieved when students were encouraged to use a voluntary diagnostic quiz on a first year University mathematics module. Initially the power of the diagnostic quiz, in predicting future success on the module, was identified using predictive analytics. Students were contacted by experienced Education Guidance staff who encouraged them to take the quiz prior to course start with the aim of using their results to steer them to start on the “right” course. The diagnostic quiz total score was made available to the student’s course tutor prior to course start to enable further tailoring of support to individual students. Early indications show an improvement in early in module retention. The module in this case study was for distance learning students on an open access mathematics course.

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Changing the Open University – a case study

Complexity, Organizations and Change ◽

10.4324/9780203507124-10 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 118-153

Keyword(s):

Open University

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ICT in the Indian Classroom

Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology - Human Development and Interaction in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0556-3.ch004 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 73-93

Author(s):

Geeta Nair ◽

Robert Hindle

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Adult Learners ◽

South Asia ◽

Open University ◽

Inclusive Growth ◽

New Era ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Role Of Information

The present research paper discusses the pivotal role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education which is gaining currency in the new era of globalism as the telecom revolution has hastened the pace of globalization and vice-versa; along with the catalyst role ICT-enabled education plays in promoting inclusive growth and human development for all. These smart tools of the emerging smart economy would help to promote mass literacy and also narrow inter, as well as intra-generational gaps. Most importantly, it will provide ‘second opportunities' to the generation that missed them in the first place, thus helping adult learners, particularly the employed and women; thus attempting to reduce gender inequities; particularly in South Asia and the Indian sub-continent. The case study of the famous open University, namely Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in India is being studies as a case of sustainable development and inclusive growth as it ‘reaches the unreached' and untouched and marginalized segments of society.

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