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Title

Academic integrity in electronic universities of the new millennium: a practitioner's perspective

Author(s)

Gray, Colin;  Salmon, Gilly

Abstract

Drawing upon its experience as a pioneer of open and distance learning in the management education field, the Open University Business School of the United Kingdom has now extended its system of student communication and support to include the use of computer-mediated conferencing as a mass teaching tool. After outlining the method of supported open learning practiced by this Business School, the article describes the use of computer-mediated conferencing in the graduate entry course to the MBA programme, a course that attracts some 1,500 managers each year from across Europe. The article then summarizes two years of student evaluation of their use of computer-mediated conferencing as a learning support medium. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of student reactions to computer-mediated conferencing for the future effective use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in management education.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Higher Education in Europe, Vol. 24, no. 2 (1999), pp. 259-264

Publication year

1999

FOR Code(s)

1301 Education Systems

Keyword(s)

Academic integrity;  Computer-mediated conferencing;  Distance learning;  ICTs;  Information and communications technologies;  Learning support;  Learning technologies;  Management education;  Online teachers;  Online teaching;  Open learning;  Open University Business School

Publisher

Routledge

ISSN

0379-7724

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0379772990240213

Copyright

Copyright © 1999 UNESCO.

Peer reviewed