The Operation of Distance Education has become a major mode of education because the conventional education is unable to meet the growing demand for admission into tertiary institutions. Through application of purposive sampling technique (procedure) this research brings to light the operations...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have commanded considerable public attention due to their sudden rise and disruptive potential. But there are no robust, published data that describe who is taking these courses and why they are doing so. As such, we do not yet know how transformative the MOOC...

The study 'Fostering Web Talent in Europe by encouraging the use of MOOCs focused on web skills' explored the use of MOOCs as one of the ways of boosting web skills amongst web-entrepreneurs in Europe. The study conclusions are based on the input from a study of the demand and supply of MOOCs...

Providing students with learning opportunities outside the classroom is not a new concept. Since the late 1880’s, various educational institutions have made certain courses available through written correspondence. Though relatively narrow in scope and reach, these forays into distance...

Educational technologists might well describe online distance education as ‘a series of instructional events over the Internet that find their expression as learning events in a student’. As a legal construct however, ‘online distance education’ is simply ‘the intellectual property of...

The paper presents a price discrimination model of a university operating in two markets, online and traditional education, and attempting to maximize revenue under a minimum profit constraint. Optimality conditions, based on demand elasticities are derived. Using a dataset of 398 southeastern...

Spanish Abstract: La presente investigación muestra un estudio realizado sobre una de las principales tendencias en la educación a distancia en la actualidad y su impacto social: los Cursos en Línea Masivos y Abiertos, conocidos por sus siglas en inglés como MOOC (Massive Open Online...