Abstract:Knowledge about adult students’ perspectives on success is scarce, with a slim history of research in online higher education. To fill this gap, this article reports on the results of a phenomenographic investigation of alternative perspectives on success among adult students from two online postgraduate programmes. The study uncovered that adults’ perspectives fell into five categories: obtaining satisfactory exam results and getting a degree, understanding, improvement in their professional practice, the opp… Show more
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