Master seminar research format for open and distance education universities

This paper describes a new postgraduate master research seminar format which was designed to establish research activities for open and distance education university’s degree courses. The master research seminar introduces students into professional research, publication, and presentation of their research work, based on a given field of research, significantly contributing to the university’s research work. The master research seminar is presented in detail. Feedback and results of a field study performed by the "Wilhelm Büchner University of Applied Sciences", Germany’s leading private university for technology and distance education, are presented.