Table 8

Common challenges for improvement in retaining students, portfolio and special needs

AspectsCommon challenges for improvement for NOU and UT
Retaining students
  1. Ensure public accountability to ensure students graduate from the open universities

  2. Improve productivity measures of the institutions in terms of student numbers enrolled and graduated

  3. Address accreditation issues as assessment for accreditation may biased against open and distance learning

  4. Find ways to identify learners with predicted possibilities to dropout and take preventive actions

  5. Use learning analytics to help students succeed in learning

  6. Provide mentoring and tutoring system to and assist students to prevent them from dropout

Student portfolio
  1. Design an effective system that allows for implementation of student portfolio in teaching and learning and assessment

  2. Ensure standard for recognition of prior learning

  3. Employ quality assurance system for credit transfer from different institutions with quality standards

  4. Develop standardized measures for student portfolio assessment and credit transfer

Special needs
  1. Support for students with special needs in large scale for all courses

  2. Invest in new technology and intelligent system to support students with special needs

Overall challenges
  1. Consistent implementation of policies on retaining students, student portfolio and students with special needs

  2. Continuously improve the system on retaining students, student portfolio and students with special needs support to students with special needs

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