Abstract: Purpose This study observes that academic excellence associated with satisfaction leads to persistence, loyalty and future careers as perceived by students in an open distance learning framework. The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the influences of academic excellence as the origin of satisfaction, and how and in which routines those associated factors were interconnected. Design/methodology/approach The inquiry employed the mixed-methods (exploratory design) approach. It was qualitatively identified first that academic excellence inclu...
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Medical education
Mathematics education
Social psychology