Managing and Leading a Distance Education Organization

1. MANAGING AND LEADING A
DISTANCE EDUCATION
ORGANIZATION

2. MANAGING AND LEADING
Body of growing literature that distinguishes the leader from the
manager

3. LEADING
Has competence in knowing, designing, managing, leading, and
visioning distance education
Capable of action who guides an organization’s future, its vision,
mission, goals, and objectives
Guides the organization and its people

4. MANAGING
Rights of students are an important concern of distance education
managers
Work for hire-if an employee creates a work, the copyright of the
work normally belongs to the employer

5. MANAGING AND LEADING
Administrators must juggle concerns about academic integrity,
technology, and student access, along with campus politics and their
own learning curve
Also affected by lack of power, loss of autonomy, and staff concerns

6. MANAGING AND LEADING
Policy development areas for distance learning
- academic
-fiscal
-geographic
-governance
-labor management
-legal and student support

7. MANAGING
Compensation is a related issue because of the extra workload
Many faculties feel that teaching distance education courses should
rate additional compensation

8. LEADING
Capable of action who guides an organization’s future, its vision,
mission, goals, and objectives

9. LEADER
Guides the organization and its people who have faith in the leader
Have a clear understanding and acceptance of the organization

10. MAIN GOAL
Create a successful and effective curriculum
-unique attributes and needs of distance learners
-assessments of students at a distance
-course management factors such as office hours
-course instructional design for distance delivery and effective use of
embedded technologies