Throughout the last three years, the advent of massive open online courses (MOOCs) have garnered media attention as a new alternative of online education with the number of student enrollment has reached 35 millions, according to the data collected by Class Central (Shah, 2015); however, the course completion rate still have been a controversial issue for educators and MOOCs providers. Indeed, the completion rates for MOOCs
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Chapter One Introduction In our dynamic South African society effective leadership is a huge challenge and an important responsibility. It has to be realised that one of the realities that is increasingly imposing itself on socio-politico-economic management all over the world, as globalisation becomes dominant, is the need to manage diversity (Kauzya, 2002:2). School leaders are faced with the challenge of transforming schools to comply with rapidly changing policies to meets the needs of a changing
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The objective of this literature review is to explore what have already been written and get a better understanding on private return to schooling. Moreover through the literature it becomes clearer on how to reply to our research questions and how to meet the objectives on this dissertation. Theoretical review Return to education is today’s investment in term of monetary and non-monetary cost (Spraul, 2006) in order to get immediate need satisfaction or future monetary and non-monetary benefits
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Academic performance has always been linked with the amount of sleep an individual gets. Research studies claim that insufficient sleep affects the academic performance of college students in various ways. For more understanding about the topic, the researchers gathered articles from different sources to further explain the matter. ACCA Global (2015) stated that next to diet and exercise, sleep is deemed as the third most important key factor of health. As aspiring accountants in college strive to
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11) Abdulwahab O Issa, Blessing Babawale Amusan, Shuaib Agboola Olarongbe, Kingsley Nwadiuto Igwe (2015) have conducted study on the Information Literacy competence of the final year undergraduate students at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria; identifying that information needs and ability to satisfy such needs, exposure to information literacy programmes and the challenges faced. Questionnaire method was used for data collection. The study found that the majority expressed dissatisfaction with their
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play a crucial role to mould the students. Due to the low enrolment and high dropout, the quality and the future development become a serious problem confronting the country’s education system. However, the teacher believes they can make difference, change is possible and it is essential to develop an accurate understanding of the factors that influences the dropout of rural students at college level. Christenson & Thurlow (2004) and Dweck (1986) reveal that student dropout is an outcome derived from
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Class size is the number of students taught in the same classroom specifically by one teacher. The issues of class size have become controversial in USA education system with different people different view that is focused on decreasing class size (Biddle et al. pp86-95). The correlation between the class size and the performance has been used to support the issue of class size whereas some people have remained staunch and supportive of the tradition class sizes. Teaching a large class poses many
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These stressors impact negatively upon interpersonal relationships with colleagues and students. Some suggestions are made for improving the structural and especially the organizational coping resources available to social work lecturers in order to assist them to develop more effective responses to stress. Mokowska (1995) attempted to identify
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Becoming an Upstander In a study by the University of California Berkeley, when there are four or more people who are witnesses in an emergency, the likelihood that at least one of them will help is only 31%. The remaining 69% of witnesses who are present but do not take part, are called bystanders, but if these bystanders become upstanders, they would become part of a solution to a problem. To become an upstander, a person should take responsibility by educating themselves about bystander apathy
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first made sure that she made assessments and notes for the student for the last few weeks and looked to see if the student had reached any IEP goals that had been set from the previous year. She will then review his/her progress reports. Once she has reviewed all the data, she review which goals have been met and which ones need to be readjusted and kept for the current IEP. She also takes the data to make other achievable goals for the student in reading and math. Once she has created her goals, she
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