title: Challenges and Achievements of Senior Citizen Pursuing Open and Distance Learning
creator: Wong, Huey Siew
creator: Oo, Cheng Keat
creator: Suhaimi Jamaludin, 
creator: Mohd Yusuf Ahmad, 
subject: LB2300 Higher Education
subject: LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
subject: LC5800 Distance education
description: In the era of technology and borderless world, open and distance learning has  become a choice for many adults who wish to pursue tertiary education. In  responding to this development, many higher education institutions, including  Open University Malaysia, have designed various academic programmes to  meet the needs of adult learners. Senior citizens naturally experience a  decline in their physical, cognitive, motor and memory abilities. Despite having  to face such challenges, many senior citizens have enrolled at the Open  University Malaysia. The objective of this study is to examine their academic  performance, analyse it by gender, age and zone of learning centres; and  identify the issues and challenges they faced. Senior citizens who graduated  from two schools, the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences (now known as  Cluster of Education and Social Sciences) and OUM Business School (now  known as Cluster of Business and Management), were included in this study.  Secondary data was used to analyse learners’ academic performance while  interviews were conducted to identify the challenges they faced. The findings  indicated that they had faced difficulties in relation to their health and  information technology skills but still performed well. (Abstract by authors)                                                          
publisher: ASEAN Journal of Open and Distance Learning
date: 2018-12
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
identifier: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1375/1/library-document-1375.pdf
relation: https://ajodl.oum.edu.my/document/Previous/Volume10.No.2_2018/Article_3_Vol10,No.2,2018.pdf
identifier:   Wong, Huey Siew and Oo, Cheng Keat and Suhaimi Jamaludin,  and Mohd Yusuf Ahmad,   (2018) Challenges and Achievements of Senior Citizen Pursuing Open and Distance Learning.  ASEAN Journal of Open & Distance Learning (AJODL), 10 (2).   ISSN 2232-0814     
relation: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1375/