A Comparative Study of the Administrative Style, Educational Processes, and Outcomes of Selected Asian Open Universities

Contemporary developments in mass education call for a detailed understanding of what characterise open universities in the Asian region for purposes of co-operation and collaboration in meeting the challenges of teaching and learning in rapidly developing economies.  The purpose of this project is to conduct a comparative study of the administrative styles, educational processes and outcomes of selected Asian open universities. Three major research questions explored in this study are: (1) how do Asian open and distance universities differ from each other and from their counterparts in other regions of the world? (2) what best practices in instructional design, use of information and communication technology (ICT), considerations for cultural and political factors, especially language, can be learned from the open and distance universities? (3) what differing outcomes are apparent, and what is responsible for those differences? The methods of electronic forum and subsequent questionnaire survey, main questionnaire survey and face-to-face interview are employed in a four-stage procedure to collect data for the study. All the open and distance universities in Asia formed the sample of this research. A total of six universities have been select as case studies using a stratified simple sampling technique. Using each university as a unit of data collection, some officials and academic staff in the selected open universities in Asia will be interviewed. NU.DIST and SPSS are employed for qualitative and quantitative analysis respectively. 

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