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Fostering Student Success through Planning in ODL

Authors
Sefora Alice Mkuzangwe1, *
1University of South Africa, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
*Corresponding author. Email: mkuzasa@unisa.ac.za
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Sefora Alice Mkuzangwe
Available Online 6 November 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-134-0_2How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Planning; Openness; Access; Quality; ODL; Student success
Abstract

Increased enrolments and opening opportunities for access met with the requisite success outcomes have presented challenges in higher education. Such challenges are established in the quality and standards of teaching, learning, and student assessments. Institutional effectiveness in the delivery of programmes facilitated by planners need an optimal academic balance in the varied functions of any higher education institution not only for the day-to-day functioning of the university but assure the quality of provision, quality services and support to students. Institutional academic plans must foreground future developments and orientations to teaching and learning strategies for the survival of universities.

Planning is an ongoing challenge that needs to be responded to at multiple levels locally within the institution and nationally to align and address higher education pressures. At the core of any institutional plan, it’s the academic provision informed by the academic disciplines and central to any academic plan is the curriculum, continuous reflections, and academic optimization of resources to improve student learning experiences.

A sequential exploratory mixed method design was employed to investigate the research questions to examine the multi-dimensionality of open education (openness) and planning systems within the context of comprehensive university.

The emergent discoveries from the three phases of the study highlighted topical issues relating to teacher and student relations in open education. The results identify an incoherent understanding of openness and fragmentation in university planning systems. Improvements needing considerations are identified as workload of lecturers, institutional resource allocation models, technology support and effective regional models.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 10th Focus Conference (TFC 2023)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
6 November 2023
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978-2-38476-134-0
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2352-5398
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