Posts Tagged ‘Planning and Managing Distance Education Systems’

Designing and Managing Distance Education Systems: Educational Systems

  Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Basic characteristics– These systems consist of a collection of courses that form a discipline supported by an academic department as well as policies and procedures affecting offering such courses and programs. Key personnel– Traditional members of this systems level include vice presidents of academic affairs, deans, […]

Planning and Managing Distance Education Systems: Instructional Systems

By: Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Basic Characteristics– Courses, modules, learning objects and supporting elements such as databases that include the instructional strategy and content for each subject, skill and competency that are taught and learned are the basic building blocks of these systems. Key Personnel– Professionals who work in these systems […]

Planning and Managing Distance Education Systems: Telecommunication Systems

  Farhad Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Basic Characteristics– The Primary role of these systems are to connect the instructor with learners, and provide learner-learner communication as well as communication services for administrative and research functions of the university. Usually under the auspices of the campus chief information officer (CIO) a complex network […]

Planning and Managing Distance Education Systems: Software Systems

Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Basic characteristics– These systems consist of the array of computer programs that are needed for teaching, learning, research and administrative affairs. Instructors have an increasing number of choices at their fingertips to connect with learners through audio, video and text communication. The variety of communication software for […]

Planning and Managing Distance Education Systems: Hardware Systems

Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com In a previous article in this series, I presented a model of distance education consisting of seven interrelated nested system levels. These system levels have been present in most distance education organizations that I observed, or planned and built over the past 30 years. In this article […]

Planning and Managing Distance Education Systems: Complex Systems

Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Over the past 30 years, while designing and implementing distance education systems at different scales, from large enterprises to stand alone courses, it became evident to me that planners and administrators usually base most of their decisions on what type of hardware and software to acquire. […]