Partnering with Online Program Managers for Distance Education offers fresh insights into the practice, implications, and outcomes of partnerships between higher education institutions and for-profit online program managers (OPMs).
Partnering with Online Program Managers for Distance Education offers fresh insights into the practice, implications, and outcomes of partnerships between higher education institutions and for-profit online program managers (OPMs). As colleges and universities race to build effective, sustainable distance education programs, higher education administrators often rely on third-party OPMs for marketing and student recruitment, student support from orientation to graduation, course design and delivery, and other fee-based services. This edited collection provides a global knowledge base for understanding academic quality, policy, and management in university-OPM partnerships along with actionable strategies and frameworks for selection, evaluation, and improvement. Leaders, administrators, developers, and accreditors of digital distance learning programs in higher education will come away with evidence-based guidance and realistic perspectives into the opportunities and challenges of this fast-emerging resource.
1. An introduction to online program management (OPM): Evolving
approaches by OPM providers and higher education institutions to drive
success, innovation, and remain relevant Section One: Lessons learned from
long term university-OPM partnerships
2. A Playbook for Success: How
codifying ways of working can enable others to onboard and offboard Online
Program Managers
3. Building a Successful Partnership: The Case of the
University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and
Noodle Section Two: Navigating conflict and criticism within universityOPM
partnerships
4. We dont work that way. Aligning the ways of working between
a Higher Education Institution and an OPM provider
5. The OPM Industry from
Divergent Perspectives Section Three: UniversityOPM case studies specific to
learning design
6. Successes and failures of Online Program Management in
Asia: A case study of faculty experience of the transition to online learning
7. Locating Academic Quality for Online Learning in Higher Education:
Perspectives from Learning Design Section Four: Evaluating the capabilities
of a university or OPM learning design function
8. Proposing a
competency-based tool for assessing the capability of university and OPM
learning designers and learning design teams
9. Early Quality Indicators of
Performance tool (EQUIP): A tool to evaluate the work of OPM learning design
teams and their outputs Section Five: UniversityOPM case studies specific to
faculty teaching
10. Critical reflections of the university faculty
experience in OPM partnerships
11. Unbundling the approach to teaching in
online Australian higher education Section Six: Future considerations for
OPMuniversity partnerships including innovation and risks
12. Online
transnational education (TNE) delivery: A case study of OPM partnership to
drive quality and scale in international market
13. The Make or Buy
Decision for Universities: Negotiating strategic relationships with OPMs
Dawn M. Gilmore is Academic Director of RMIT Online at RMIT University, Australia, and President of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia.
Chinh Nguyen is Senior Consultant and Online Programs Manager at Curio as well as Sessional Academic in the Department of Management and Marketing, MBS/Faculty of Business and Economics, at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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