Putting on my administrator cap: online vs on-campus enrollments?
This week I started a 2-week (online) workshop from the Sloan Consortium on Implementing the Quality Scorecard for the Administration of Online Education Programs . So far it's a pretty interesting course, and I've read through the reading materials supplied by the workshop facilitator. One of the things that stands out, and this makes sense, is that an academic department can't go at it alone. In order to implement a quality online program you need to reach out to many stakeholders, gatekeepers, and partners. In project management parlance, you also need a champion! One of the things that I've been thinking about over the past few years has been this tension between the online and the on-campus sides of operation. In most departments there is an online person and an on-campus person. In some departments there isn't that distinction, but in the minds of people there still is that online vs. on-campus - this comes from discussions with people on my own cam...