{"id":"https://openalex.org/W20469592","doi":null,"title":"Cultural and contextual issues in evaluation of transnational distance education","display_name":"Cultural and contextual issues in evaluation of transnational distance education","publication_year":2008,"publication_date":"2008-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W20469592","mag":"20469592"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:researchbank.rmit.edu.au:rmit:3965","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/view/rmit:3965","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306402074","display_name":"RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I82951845","host_organization_name":"RMIT University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I82951845"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Book Chapter"},"volume":null,"type":"book-chapter","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":[],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5048111562","display_name":"Christopher Ziguras","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4743-1847","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4743-1847"]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Christopher Ziguras","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4743-1847","affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5048111562"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":8,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.00640375,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":88,"max":95},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"639","last_page":"653"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10162","display_name":"Online and Blended Learning","score":0.9955999851226807,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3304","display_name":"Education"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10162","display_name":"Online and Blended Learning","score":0.9955999851226807,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3304","display_name":"Education"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11300","display_name":"Global Educational Policies and Reforms","score":0.0008999999845400453,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3320","display_name":"Political Science and International Relations"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12408","display_name":"Digital Transformation of Higher Education","score":0.00039999998989515007,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3304","display_name":"Education"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/contextual-factors","display_name":"contextual factors","score":0.6660000085830688},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/internationalization-of-higher-education","display_name":"internationalization of higher education","score":0.6330000162124634},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/lifelong-learning","display_name":"lifelong learning","score":0.6890000104904175},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/flexible-learning-spaces","display_name":"flexible learning spaces","score":0.8029999732971191},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/education-policy-critique","display_name":"education policy critique","score":0.6010000109672546}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C503872463","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159595","display_name":"Distance education","level":2,"score":0.7029151320457458},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2781110425","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2074695","display_name":"Coursework","level":2,"score":0.6469955444335938},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C108771440","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q368475","display_name":"Lifelong learning","level":2,"score":0.6285969018936157},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779177650","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3595759","display_name":"International education","level":3,"score":0.5022921562194824},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199728807","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2578557","display_name":"Equity (law)","level":2,"score":0.49471089243888855},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.46931028366088867},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C19417346","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7922","display_name":"Pedagogy","level":1,"score":0.4676738679409027},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776702143","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5490565","display_name":"Global education","level":2,"score":0.45712679624557495},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778571376","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1355821","display_name":"Frontier","level":2,"score":0.45421138405799866},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C134819137","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1346247","display_name":"Comparative education","level":3,"score":0.4527060389518738},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C51067260","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q828812","display_name":"Professional development","level":2,"score":0.44600334763526917},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C18762648","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42213","display_name":"Work (physics)","level":2,"score":0.43885892629623413},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C120912362","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136822","display_name":"Higher education","level":2,"score":0.43211162090301514},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.3884904682636261},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C39549134","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133080","display_name":"Public relations","level":1,"score":0.37724220752716064},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.1873283088207245},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C78519656","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101333","display_name":"Mechanical engineering","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":5,"locations":[{"id":"pmh:oai:researchbank.rmit.edu.au:rmit:3965","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/view/rmit:3965","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306402074","display_name":"RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I82951845","host_organization_name":"RMIT University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I82951845"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Book Chapter"},{"id":"pmh:oai:alma.61RMIT_INST:11247543450001341","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32022735","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306402074","display_name":"RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I82951845","host_organization_name":"RMIT University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I82951845"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"text"},{"id":"pmh:oai:alma61RMIT.INST:11247543450001341","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32022735","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306402074","display_name":"RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I82951845","host_organization_name":"RMIT University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I82951845"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"text"},{"id":"pmh:oai:figshare.com:article/27338703","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://figshare.com/articles/chapter/Cultural_and_contextual_issues_in_evaluation_of_transnational_distance_education/27338703","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4377196282","display_name":"Figshare","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I4210132348","host_organization_name":"Figshare (United Kingdom)","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210132348"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"Chapter"},{"id":"mag:20469592","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Ziguras/publication/230578151_Cultural_and_contextual_issues_in_evaluation_of_transnational_distance_education/links/559a826e08ae793d1381f3b4.pdf","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":null}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.9235000014305115,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/4","display_name":"Quality education"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":22,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W104897906","https://openalex.org/W105769046","https://openalex.org/W577572834","https://openalex.org/W1570932931","https://openalex.org/W1594863971","https://openalex.org/W1745564906","https://openalex.org/W1967419704","https://openalex.org/W1996005484","https://openalex.org/W2027553719","https://openalex.org/W2034489205","https://openalex.org/W2042771152","https://openalex.org/W2043817685","https://openalex.org/W2069110396","https://openalex.org/W2087704493","https://openalex.org/W2090730761","https://openalex.org/W2107422711","https://openalex.org/W2142087563","https://openalex.org/W2142092165","https://openalex.org/W2145440184","https://openalex.org/W2488784333","https://openalex.org/W2494381438","https://openalex.org/W4248891426"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4250227942","https://openalex.org/W1547194017","https://openalex.org/W2129669013","https://openalex.org/W4417190042","https://openalex.org/W437762941","https://openalex.org/W2188855726","https://openalex.org/W1573453741","https://openalex.org/W1551248253","https://openalex.org/W2091356826","https://openalex.org/W2342306821"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Distance":[0,56],"education":[1,10,22,63,110],"is":[2,92],"arguably":[3],"one":[4],"of":[5,55,61,82,86,108],"the":[6,12,29,59,73,83,87,131,135],"major":[7],"developments":[8],"in":[9,28,33,40,80,106,111,152],"during":[11],"20th":[13],"Century.":[14,89],"From":[15],"schooling":[16,117],"through":[17,118],"to":[18,24,94,123,133,139,147],"university":[19],"education,":[20,115],"distance":[21,62,109],"blossomed":[23],"facilitate":[25],"frontier":[26],"expansion":[27],"New":[30],"World,":[31],"capacity-building":[32],"developing":[34],"nations,":[35],"access":[36],"and":[37,43,47,65,76,103,113,120,142,150,157,163],"equity":[38],"provision":[39],"post-War":[41],"societies":[42],"flexible":[44,164],"professional":[45],"development":[46,156],"workplace":[48],"training":[49],"for":[50,100],"late-modernity.":[51],"'The":[52],"International":[53],"Handbook":[54],"Education'":[57],"explores":[58],"array":[60],"theories":[64],"practices":[66],"as":[67],"they":[68],"have":[69],"been":[70],"shaped":[71],"by":[72],"late-20th":[74],"Century":[75],"then":[77],"positions":[78],"these":[79],"terms":[81],"contemporary":[84],"circumstances":[85],"21st":[88],"The":[90],"'Handbook'":[91,132],"intended":[93],"be":[95],"a":[96,145],"comprehensive":[97],"reference":[98],"work":[99],"practitioners,":[101],"researchers":[102],"administrators":[104],"engaged":[105],"forms":[107],"private":[112],"public":[114],"from":[116],"undergraduate":[119],"postgraduate":[121],"coursework":[122],"doctoral":[124],"research":[125],"programs.A":[126],"critical":[127],"thread":[128],"runs":[129],"throughout":[130],"provide":[134],"reader":[136],"with":[137,144],"stimulation":[138],"critique":[140],"policy":[141,155],"practice":[143],"view":[146],"being":[148],"creative":[149],"responsive":[151],"their":[153],"own":[154],"educational":[158],"work.":[159],"It":[160],"discusses":[161],"lifelong":[162],"learning":[165],"environments.":[166]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-11-04T10:54:05.112534","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}