Critical Success Attributes of Transnational It Education Programmes: The Client Perspective

How can transnational education (TNE) programs be made more effective? According to the lit-erature, no one is in a better position to comment on this question than the students themselves. At the same time, there is a recognized scarcity in the literature of student input into the issue of transnational program effectiveness. In consideration of this need, a research study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of TNE programs from the student perspective. To this end, transna-tional students ’ views on the various dimensions of the TNE context were used as a key indicator of the effectiveness of transnational programs. The evaluated dimensions included student, in-structor, curriculum and instruction design, interaction, evaluation and assessment, technology, and program management, and organisational support. Data for the study was collected from ap-proximately five hundred transnational students participating in eight transnational undergraduat