Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.38190/ope.10.2.7
Online study as a successful method of education of demographically older groups on the example of a selected institution
Rudi Štekl
orcid.org/0000-0002-6879-6207
; European Busness School Zagreb
Abstract
Online study or distance learning is a new model of education in the Republic of Croatia that is gaining increasing acceptance among all age groups of students. This model is especially becoming prominent and represented in higher education institutions in Croatia. As a relative novelty in the education system of the Republic of Croatia, online study encounters various issues, and one of the basic stigmatization that this model is currently facing, is the common public perception that online study is actually an “online course.” Another novelty in the education system is the wide spectrum of required adaptation and individualization of each student. This model of Western European higher education institutions has long been implemented in their systems. The primary goal of this paper is to show the socio-demographic group of online students in a region of Croatia. The paper also aims to explain online or distance learning in the Republic of Croatia, to show the challenges, shortcomings and opportunities faced by students attending online studies and institutions that offer them. The paper presents a concrete example of a demographic group of students in one region of the Republic of Croatia through observation of a higher education institution and the reasons why they chose this model. The role and importance of such innovative models of education is increasingly expressed precisely in the form of the needs of the market or the people who attend them. Ultimately, it is the students who determine the perspective and future of such new models of education.
Keywords
online study; new model; education
Hrčak ID:
248137
URI
Publication date:
17.12.2020.
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