title: Engaging the Open Distance Learners: A Strategy to Increase Retention and Improve Graduation Rates
creator: Ng , Richard
subject: LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
description: This paper investigates the impact of various interventions  implemented by Open University Malaysia on learners’ level of  Engagement in the Online Community developed through interaction  between the various participants; learners, instructors and  management of the university. The intensity of the Online Community  as the result of the interventions was measured using four variables:  Learner-Learner, Learner-Tutor, Learner-Staff and Learner-Content  interaction. The learners’ level of Engagement and Commitment to stay  in their programmes were also measured and a correlation was then  established. Data for the research were collected from 1,500  undergraduate learners of Open University Malaysia throughout  Malaysia using self-administered questionnaires. Results obtained from  1,116 respondents showed that there was a strong correlation between  Learner-Learner, Learner-Instructor, Learner-Staff, Learner-Content,  Engagement and Commitment to stay. Multiple regression analysis  carried out showed that the learners’ Engagement explains 72 percent  of the variance of their Commitment to stay. This study is important as  it will help future researchers to develop a tool to measure engagement  of learners in the Online Community.  [ABSTRACT BY AUTHOR]
publisher: ASEAN Journal of Open and Distance Learning
date: 2011-12
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
identifier: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1007/1/library-document-1007.pdf
identifier:   Ng , Richard  (2011) Engaging the Open Distance Learners: A Strategy to Increase Retention and Improve Graduation Rates.  ASEAN Journal of Open & Distance Learning (AJODL), 3 (1).  pp. 15-26.  ISSN 2232-0814     
relation: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1007/