Positive pivotal factors in one sustainability pillar can compensate for negative pivotal factors in other pillars of an online study program¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2022 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Positive pivotal factors in one sustainability pillar can be used to overcome negative pivotal factors in the other pillars, e.g., committed key academics (social) compensating for scarce financial resources (economic). → Jarkko Suhonen · Erkki Sutinen 2022

Evidence¶

Jarkko Suhonen · Erkki Sutinen 2022¶

Jarkko Suhonen · Erkki Sutinen. (2022). Critical events and pivotal factors as tools for analyzing the sustainability of online study programs. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-022-10133-9

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Retrospective narrative and autoethnographic analysis by the two authors, who coordinated and led the IMPDET program, of six critical events over 2004–2021. The authors state they "demonstrated that positive pivotal factors in one sustainability pillar can be used to overcome negative pivotal factors in the other pillars." No effect sizes are reported.

"We also demonstrated that positive pivotal factors in one sustainability pillar can be used to overcome negative pivotal factors in the other pillars."

Discussion¶

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