Regional Summer Schools: Widening Learning Opportunities through Intensive Courses

Autor/inn/en	Ellis, Bronwyn; Sawyer, Janet
Titel	Regional Summer Schools: Widening Learning Opportunities through Intensive Courses
Quelle	In: Education in Rural Australia, 19 (2009) 1, S.35-52 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1036-0026
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Summer Schools; Undergraduate Study; Courses; Regional Programs; Multicampus Colleges; Program Effectiveness; Student Attitudes; Undergraduate Students; Learning Experience; Student Motivation; Time Factors (Learning); Statistics; College Mathematics; Law Related Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Summer school; Sommerkurs; Grundstudium; Kursangebot; Regional program; Regional programme; Regionalprogramm; Schülerverhalten; Lernerfahrung; Schulische Motivation; Statistik; Australien
Abstract	While many universities now include summer school and other intensive courses as part of their annual programme offerings, undergraduate summer school courses were initiated in one South Australian university by its regional campus. Originally designed to give students who had failed a course the opportunity to catch up, they also enabled students to fast-track their degree, or lighten the workload for a subsequent study period, and provided these students with a distinctive learning experience. Despite much informal favourable feedback from both local students and metropolitan students who have availed themselves of this opportunity, there had not been a formal evaluation of the effectiveness of these regional summer schools, in comparison with the usual delivery modes, prior to the study described in this paper. The positives of the regional campus summer school are demonstrated in these results. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia. P.O. Box 659, Wembly, Western Australia 6913, Australia. Tel: +08-9264-5809; e-mail: admin@spera.asn.au; Web site: http://www.spera.edu.au
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10