Distance learning for information professionals: A practical, reality-driven model for postgraduate education

Provision of academic data for research: A step for academic success

“…Not only were there little data related to educational institutions, the ones that existed were difficult to manage, change, and enable meaningful cohorts between datasets (Matters, 2006). Currently, due to the technological advances related to collecting, sharing and representing massive amounts of information, the extensive use of data to inform improvement plan policies and for decision making is now conceivable in several areas such as healthcare (Frati, 2019), education (Gauld & Whatley, 2017;Ling, 2019), security (Krishnamurthy & Desouza, 2014), among others (Earl, 2005;Matters, 2006). According to Earl (2005), "data provide tools for the investigation necessary to plan appropriate and focused improvement strategies.…”

“…Information systems have now become an essential part of the education sector in several universities (Campbell et al, 2007;Delavari, 2008;Gauld & Whatley, 2017). This factor leads to a rise in the capability to assemble, offer, and represent a massive quantity of data about the whole constitution of the institutional body and its interactions with educational systems.…”

Assessing the opinions of pedagogical specialities students on the use of distance learning

“…In recent years, distance learning has advanced considerably. The expansion of distance learning and an understanding of its benefits has led to the growth of methodologies, pedagogies, and models aimed at diversifying and maximising the student experience and increasing student numbers (Gauld, Whatley, 2017).…”