What is Massification

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The process of bringing a good or service (in this instance education) to a mass audience. Learn more in: An Alternative Technology: Distance Education through Transnational Partnerships

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The practice of making luxury products available to the mass market. Learn more in: The Portuguese Luxury Wine Market: A Study on the Perceptions of Wine Brand Managers

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The process of bringing education to a world audience. Learn more in: New Learning for New Students

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A business model encompassing fast cycles, rapid prototyping and small product batches with larger varieties. Learn more in: Slow Fashion and Sustainability: The Luxury Impact

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Widespread adoption of technology, bringing with it uniformity. Learn more in: Ten Scalability Factors in Distance Education

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Has emerged from the terms globalization and internationalism, which affected higher education systems. In turn, the massification of higher education resulted in the evaluation of social/cultural, economic, political, and technological outcomes and advances and trends in the 21 st century. The growth and evolution of these higher education systems presents challenges and opportunities. Learn more in: K. Patricia Cross's Chain-of-Response (COR) Model for Widening Participation at Higher Levels of Lifelong Learning in a World of Massification: Past, Present, and Future

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Conceptually, the term massification once mentioned, provokes a variety of meanings. To a greater extent it refers to the escalating expansion and widening of access to tertiary education (Kajubi, 1997). In another context massification is looked at as diversity of institutions and programmes. Mohamedbhai (2008) views massification as a situation where the ratio of educational resources and class numbers became incompatible giving rise to stressful learning conditions thus loss of quality and lowering of standard. In this study massification will be perceived in the context of widening access and increased enrollment in higher education and how it has influenced the quality teaching, learning and management. Learn more in: ICT in Teaching and Learning and Management of Massification

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Opening admission into higher education through multiple entry and exit levels to masses of students who desire entry but who were not the intended recipients of this education. Learn more in: Transformation and Social Justice in South African Higher Education: An Unequal Turf

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The term applied to global exponential growth of enrollment in tertiary education. Learn more in: Economic Impact of Information and Communication Technology in Higher Education

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The expansion of provision and uptake of higher education. Learn more in: Humanizing Learning for All: Considerations for Large-Scale Online Design Initiatives