Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-71). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-71). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-84). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-122).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-84). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 237-244.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Education)) - Rhodes University, 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-145).

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2017-03-28T17:59:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Silvia Maria Moretti Morgan.pdf: 919943 bytes, checksum: 3511f82d3e4378cf8ff6524dc9a25724 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-28T17:59:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silvia Maria Moretti Morgan.pdf: 919943 bytes, checksum: 3511f82d3e4378cf8ff6524dc9a25724 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-10-24 / The distance education in Brazil has undergone significant changes in recent years. These changes end up awakening, especially in managers, the search and implementation of new business models for the offering and distribution of content produced emphasizing this mode as easing the provision of higher education in the country.Bekkelund (2011) in his study "Succeding with freemium" suggested a set of eight propositions that should be used as guidance for companies wishing to employ freemium as a business model.The guiding question of this dissertation is: The business model of distance education have been influenced by changes in progress in the creative industry? The overall objective of this study is is to identify possible trends of changes in business models of Distance Education by means of exploratory research of a quantitative nature. This is a quantitative research study with the scale proposed application by Bekkelund via survey. The results show that there are features of replicable freemium business models in the context of business management model oriented for distance education. / A Educação a Distância no Brasil tem passado por mudanças significativas nos últimos anos. Essas mudanças acabam por despertar, principalmente nos gestores, o interesse pela aplicação de novos modelos de negócios para o oferecimento e distribuição do conteúdo produzido nesta modalidade de ensino. Bekkelund (2011), em seu estudo “Succeding with freemium” sugeriu um conjunto de oito proposições que devem ser usadas como orientação para empresas que desejam empregar o freemium como modelo de negócio. A pergunta norteadora do presente estudo é: Os modelos de negócios da Educação a Distância têm sido influenciados pelas mudanças em andamento na indústria criativa? O objetivo geral deste estudo é Identificar eventuais tendências de mudanças nos modelos de negócios da Educação a Distância Superior a Distância por meio de uma pesquisa exploratória de cunho quantitativo. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de caráter quantitativa, com aplicação da escala proposta por Bekkelund via survey. Os resultados encontrados demonstram que há características dos modelos de negócios freemium com tendência a serem replicadas no contexto da gestão de modelos de negócios orientados da Educação a Distância.

The research was triggered by widespread criticisms from its constituencies about the relevance of MBAs, allegedly instigated by its dual academic and utilitarian purposes in developing functionally and ethically competent managers. Using Malaysia as the research focus, the perceptions of three MBA stakeholders (i.e. business schools/management educators, industries and students) were explored on the adequacy of MBA provisions by its public universities in preparing professionally and ethically competent managers. Their opinions were gauged on several subjective terms, each carrying the dual academic-utilitarian connotations, i.e. the roles of MBAs, the roles of its providers, the definitions of relevance, the definitions of managers and the necessary competencies, and their concerns over the social responsibility of managers and their education. The research employed mainly qualitative approaches. Primary data was gathered through semi-structured interviews, a focus group discussion and e-mails from the three stakeholders. The management educators and students were derived from three selected business schools. The secondary data involved analysis of the MBA websites and prospectuses provided by all the 10 public universities in Malaysia. In total, the research derived data consisting of 28 interviews, 1 focus group, 81 surveys, 3 email questionnaires, and 10 document analyses. The findings suggested that the perceptions of all three stakeholders reflected an imbalanced MBA that was biased towards utilitarian objectives as opposed to social objectives. The findings showed that religion / spirituality and the development of ME in Malaysia had a considerable impact in influencing the perspectives of the respondents. The research contributes to the discipline by demonstrating how a non-western, religious, developing country viewed the research issues dominated by Western literature.