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    Factors influencing success in the delivery of business courses through Web CT in remote locations: a case study of collaborative partnership between Curtin University and the African Virtual University

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    Authors
    Bolt, Susan
    Graber, Mark
    Date
    2009
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Bolt, Susan and Graber, Mark. 2009. Factors influencing success in the delivery of business courses through Web CT in remote locations: a case study of collaborative partnership between Curtin University and the African Virtual University, in Anne Gaskell and Roger Mills (ed), The Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning 2009, Sep 22 2009, pp. 95-102. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Von Hugel Institute.
    Source Title
    Supporting learning in the digital age: rethinking inclusion, pedagogy and quality
    Source Conference
    The Cambridge international conference on open and distance learning 2009
    ISBN
    9780749229269
    Faculty
    Curtin Business School
    Teaching and Learning
    School
    CBS - Faculty Office
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18788
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    There is limited access to tertiary education for students in remote African locations. In 1997 the World Bank launched the African Virtual University which collaboratively "facilitates the use of effective Open Distance and eLearning (ODeL) Methodologies in African Tertiary Education Institutions" (2007). As collaborating partners, lecturers from Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia utilised Web CT to deliver the Bachelor of Business (BBA) into four East African universities; Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), Kigali Institute of Science & Technology (Rwanda), Kenyatta University (Kenya), University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). This paper presents a case study which describes the deployment of Web-CT into these locations. The successes identified in this case study refer, particularly, to student completions. Due to environmental conditions present at the time of the AVU-BBA project and documented in the literature the project encountered difficulties. Some references are made to the African students' expectations concerning their distance and e-learning experiences and capacity building as an outcome of the AVU and Curtin University of Technology partnership. As a result of this research, recommendations are made for the successful delivery of distance and e-learning in similar African rural and remote locations.

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