6Soft Skills and Online Higher Education
Institutional Challenges in Online Higher Education (OHE) and Current Context
OHE is an evolutionary and flexible way of instruction that evolves from traditional forms of distance education incorporating pedagogical advances, information technologies and computational developments (Allen & Seaman, 2014). Online learning is commonly supported by web platforms called learning management systems (LMS) that enable instructor–student interactions either in synchronous (same time) or asynchronous (alternate times) formats.
From the dimension of students, widespread access to OHE allows student enrolment beyond a face-to-face classroom or institution across cities, countries and worldwide ...
