Enrolment Motivations and Institutional Attachment of 30+ Age Bangladeshi Women at Distance Learning Programs

View/ Open
PDF (545.7Kb)
Date
2016-11Abstract
Due to the advancement of technological development in medical science and wider facilities and awareness for lifestyle modification, have bring tremendous change in older women. With the increase of life span, women’s desire for self-identity and recognized status has been developed. The purpose of this study is to understand and measure the motivation of 30+ women’s enrollment in distance education through Bangladesh Open University. Although programs of distance education meet the needs of adult learners who work and who have the career and family responsibilities (Tucker, 2000) it has been observed that most of the women who enroll in open learning programs in Bangladesh Open University , are 30+ years old. Many of them have household production matriarch. They have a major responsibility in the realm of running the household and managing its day-to-day requirements (e.g., cooking, cleaning, and child care, paying bills, and supervising home repairs) (Knowlton & Thomeczek, 2007). This group is between 30 and 60 years old and they have different perception and motivation from those whose age is suitable for traditional formal education. They have their own unique nature educational needs which bring them close to distance education and motivate them to continue education in this age after a break of certain period. // Paper ID 8
Collections
Metadata
Show full item recordRelated Items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Girls Step Towards Empowerment: Ladder to Hope through Gender Lens:Bangladesh Open University
Akhter, Zobaida (2013-11)Women’s access to education must be treated as their fundamental right. And it is only through education that they would get the chance to prepare themselves in order to play their roles in nation’s social, economic and ... -
Girls Not Brides: Concern of Distance Learning: Strategies to Prevent Child Marriage and Curse of Dowry: Bangladesh Perspective
Akhter, Zobaida (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)Women’s access to education must be treated as their fundamental right. And it is only through education that they wo uld get the chance to prepare themselves in order to play their roles in nation’s social, economic ... -
Unlocking the potentials: conceptual framework for the education of the indigenous people through open and distance learning
Akhter, Zobaida (2010-11)The constitution of Bangladesh guarantees equal rights for men and women, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, race, caste and religion and strives to promote social and economic equality. Access to information ... -
Skill for Empowerment: Break the Cage: Challenges for Open and Distance Learning
Akhter, Zobaida (2013-11)Bangladesh has made some great strides in promoting gender equality in the education sector by managing to close the gender gap in gross and net enrolment ratios in primary and secondary education. However, this success ... -
Motivation, Experience and Satisfaction Among Adult Learners with Fully Online Web-Based Courses
Zakariah, Zulaika; Hashim, Raemah A; Musa, Nuruljannah (Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)The purpose of this paper is to explore the correlation between motivation, experience and the level of satisfaction among fully online adult learners in an Open Distance Learning (ODL) institution. These attributes is ...