“…Online students are less likely than on-campus students to be school-leavers, and more likely to be older, mature-age learners, engaged in regular ongoing employment, either full or part-time, with substantial family responsibilities and to be juggling multiple responsibilities in their lives (Moore & Greenland, 2017;Signor & Moore, 2014;Stone & O'Shea, 2019). There is evidence that online learning, particularly at undergraduate level, is contributing significantly to the Australian Government's student equity agenda, with this cohort containing higher proportions of students who are first in their families to study at university level as well as those from the government-identified higher education equity categories (DET, 2017a), of low socio-economic background, regional and remote students, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, and students with a disability (Cardak et al, 2017;Kent, 2015;Pollard, 2018;Stone, O'Shea, May, Delahunty, & Partington, 2016;).…”