In recent years, hopes that Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) would make access to
education fairer faded in the light of research showing MOOCs favoured the already …

An increasing number of students entering Australian higher education are choosing to
study in an online mode. Attrition rates for online students are considerably higher than for …

The university student population in Australia contains increasing numbers of older students
returning to learning after a significant gap in their educational journey. Many are choosing …

Online learning has a critical place in widening access and participation in education for a
diverse range of students, many of whom are from backgrounds which have been …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 O’Shea i ‘Mind the Gap!’ Exploring the postgraduation outcomes and
employment mobility of individuals who are first in their family to complete a university degree …

Online learning has an important place in widening access and participation in higher
education for diverse student cohorts. One cohort taking up online study in increasing …

This article explores how one cohort of first-in-family students narrated their movement into
and through university, proposed as a form of boundary crossing. These metaphors …

For more than three decades, Australian higher education policy has been guided by a
national equity framework focussed on six underrepresented target groups: Indigenous …

The expression 'student success' has gained traction in the university sector and has been
applied to various aspects of the higher education (HE) learning trajectory. Yet,'success' is …

Despite efforts to widen participation, first-in-family students, as an equity group, remain
severely under-represented in higher education internationally. This book explores and …