Transforming Universities with Digital Distance Education

Transforming Universities with Digital Distance Education explores the ways in which higher education stakeholders can apply and leverage the benefits of online learning. Systems-wide access, scale and quality are achievable goals but require forms of teamwork and financial modelling beyond those at the instructor or programme level. This book's organisational view tackles the systems and practices that will help senior managers and decision-makers guide an entire institution away from dysfunction-incremental progress, insufficient capacity, high costs and generic products-and towards the macro-level implementation and operations of effective online pedagogies.

Mark Nichols is Executive Director of Learning Design & Development at The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. Before returning to Open Polytechnic, he was previously Director of Technology Enhanced Learning at The Open University, UK.

1. Introduction 2. On learning and formal education 3. Models of university education 4. The digital distance education (DDE) model 5. Module narratives 6. Teaching roles 7. Module development: context, direction, and practice 8. Operating models and organisational change