TY - JOUR
T1 - Parallel online, on-campus, and blended programme delivery: Challenges and strategies
T2 - Challenges and strategies
AU - Cleary, Yvonne
AU - Slattery, Darina
AU - Marcus-Quinn, A. N.N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/10
Y1 - 2018/10
N2 - Higher education institutions are under increasing pressure to offer online postgraduate programmes. Although it is reasonably common to convert existing programmes to online or blended delivery modes, it is unusual to offer a programme simultaneously in online, on-campus, and blended delivery modes. This paper describes the authors’ experiences of offering an MA programme on-campus and in parallel online and blended delivery modes. It emphasises the use of theoretical models, including communities of inquiry, e-moder-ation, and e-tivities, in the pedagogical approach. Feedback from learners indicates that they benefit from the flexibility and community-centred programme design. Nevertheless, the programme requires institutional support into the future to remain sustainable in the three delivery modes.
AB - Higher education institutions are under increasing pressure to offer online postgraduate programmes. Although it is reasonably common to convert existing programmes to online or blended delivery modes, it is unusual to offer a programme simultaneously in online, on-campus, and blended delivery modes. This paper describes the authors’ experiences of offering an MA programme on-campus and in parallel online and blended delivery modes. It emphasises the use of theoretical models, including communities of inquiry, e-moder-ation, and e-tivities, in the pedagogical approach. Feedback from learners indicates that they benefit from the flexibility and community-centred programme design. Nevertheless, the programme requires institutional support into the future to remain sustainable in the three delivery modes.
KW - Blended delivery
KW - On-campus delivery
KW - Online delivery
KW - Parallel delivery
KW - Teaching online
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85057116510
SN - 1537-2456
VL - 17
SP - 551
EP - 568
JO - International Journal on E-Learning: Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education
JF - International Journal on E-Learning: Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education
IS - 4
ER -