Promoting entrepreneurship education through open and distance learning (ODL) in Malaysia: a case study of Wawasan Open University (WOU) students at Penang Regional Centre (PGRC)
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This paper examines the role of Wawasan Open University (WOU) as an Open and Distance Learning (ODL) institution in promoting entrepreneurship education. This study will largely be a qualitative method which will use an open ended questionnaire and the data collected will be analysed thematically. Open ended questionnaires will be administrated to 60 students from the WOU, Penang Regional Centre using the purposive sampling techniques. The study will employ a convenient sampling technique. An equal representation of participants from each school will be recognised. The sample comprised of the ODL students of WOU at Penang Regional Centre namely from; Business School (School of Business Administration) and other schools (School of Science and Technology, School of Foundation and Liberal Studies and School of Education, Languages and Communications). Students will be asked to respond to the questionnaire that will be placed at the reception of the Penang Regional Centre between March and June 2015. The target students in this study are those who had registered for a semester and have enrolled for the Entrepreneurship Development course with Penang Regional Centre. This is to ensure that the respondents are conversant in some way with the ODL system and also have the basic knowledge on entrepreneurship curriculum.
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Paper presented at the 29th Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) Conference (30 November-02 December 2015; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Promoting entrepreneurship education through open and distance learning (ODL) in Malaysia: a case study of Wawasan Open University (WOU) students at Penang Regional Centre (PGRC)
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