Students value the UOC online model's flexibility for combining study with professional and personal life¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Students across knowledge areas report the online model lets them combine studies with work and personal life without major inconvenience. → Rivera-Vargas 2021 q2 i? The continuous evaluation test model is a main reason students choose the UOC. → Rivera-Vargas 2021 (2)

Evidence¶

Rivera-Vargas 2021¶

Rivera-Vargas, P., Anderson, T., & Alonso Cano, C. (2021). Exploring students’ learning experience in online education: analysis and improvement proposals based on the case of a Spanish open learning university. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-10045-0

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Questionnaire results (Table 3) in the UOC case study show strong agreement, e.g. 84.2% of Economics and Business students strongly agree the model allows combining professional and academic life.

"the results of the questionnaire reaffirm that students across the UOC’s Knowledge Areas consider that the online education educational model at the UOC allows them to combine their studies with the usual organization of their time, and also, with their personal and professional life"

Rivera-Vargas 2021 (2)¶

Rivera-Vargas, P., Anderson, T., & Alonso Cano, C. (2021). Exploring students’ learning experience in online education: analysis and improvement proposals based on the case of a Spanish open learning university. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-10045-0

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Survey data reported via Fig. 4 indicate the continuous evaluation test model is the main stated reason students choose UOC's online education system.

"This flexible evaluative model, which aims to promote the autonomy and leadership of students in their educational process (Sánchez-Gelabert et al., 2020; UOC, 2020), represents the main reason why students choose to complete their university education in the online education system (Fig. 4 )."

Discussion¶

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