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Navigating towards success: Supporting students on academic probation.
(ATLAANZ, 2012)This paper describes a pilot programme developed by the Learning Centre at the Open Polytechnic which targeted students placed on academic probation. Because students placed on academic probation are at a high risk of ... -
Neither consumers nor instruments: Re-imaging students.
(2007)During the period 1984-1999, a neo-liberal model of tertiary education was introduced in New Zealand, which envisaged students as entrepreneurial consumers or autonomous choosers. Since 1999, tertiary education strategy ... -
New Zealand internet websites, information transfer and rural education.
(2001)New Zealand has a relatively high living standard, a well-educated rural population and a relatively high usage of computers and the Internet. These factors mean that many farmers and horticulturists now use the Internet ... -
Non-invasive breast cancer detection.
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Older workers and intergenerational workplaces: Implications for management educators
(2010)Increased workforce participation by older workers is an emerging reality. Older workers are often perceived as reluctant learners unable to adapt to new technology, but both research and empirical evidence suggest that ... -
Older workers and technology: Learning opportunity or learning barrier.
(2010)Older workers are often stereotyped as reluctant learners, and particularly unable to adapt to new technology. Yet both research and empirical evidence suggest that this stereotyping is not valid. Older workers have already ... -
On transfer: The distance learner and the transfer of learning.
(2004)The problem of transfer of learning has been an enduring one, with contestation occurring over definitions, theories, and measures, and whether transfer to new situations is possible. Evidence of transfer has often proved ... -
Online learning: Does it Work?
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Online orientation to promote student success.
(2013)The Open Polytechnic Learning Centre promotes student success by offering several online study skills workshops. These workshops are made up of a series of modules, designed using Moodle (a learning management system), ... -
Open learning for an open world: Reflections on open and distance learning and teaching at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand.
(2011)Foreword / Caroline Seelig -- Contributors -- Introduction / Jonathan Barrett -- Distance Education at the Open Polytechnic: The ?Institutional? Approach / Mark Nichols -- Instructional Design: Theory and Practice / Polly ...