{"id":8577,"date":"2010-08-25T11:56:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=8577"},"modified":"2010-08-25T11:56:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T15:56:47","slug":"distance-education-the-centralization-vs-decentralization-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/08\/25\/distance-education-the-centralization-vs-decentralization-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Distance Education: The Centralization vs. Decentralization Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Distance Education: The  Centralization vs. Decentralization Debate\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/distance-learning\/distance-education-the-centralization-vs-decentralization-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Distance Education: The  Centralization vs. Decentralization Debate<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from Faculty Focus<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The debate for \u201ccontrol\u201d of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/tag\/distance-education\/\" target=\"_blank\">distance  education<\/a> at institutions of higher learning continues. On one side,  the administration side, there is a need for centralization of  operations, to include course development, instructor training and  development, scheduling, evaluation, and student and faculty issues. On  the other side of the debate, faculty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/tag\/leader\/\" target=\"_blank\">leader<\/a>s (deans,  department chairs, program coordinators) tend to favor decentralization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In June 2010, the Western Cooperative for Educational  Telecommunication (WCET) asked the membership how institutions were  doing with this issue: centralization vs. de-centralization.  Twenty-three administrators (provosts, VPs, associate VPs, directors,  associate directors, COOs, deans, associate deans) and faculty members  provided their valuable insights on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distance Education: The Centralization vs. Decentralization Debate &#8212; from Faculty Focus The debate for \u201ccontrol\u201d of distance education at institutions of higher learning continues. On one side, the administration side, there is a need for centralization of operations, to include course development, instructor training and development, scheduling, evaluation, and student and faculty issues. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,74,20],"tags":[183,607,579],"class_list":["post-8577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distance-education","category-leadership","category-strategy","tag-distance-ed","tag-leadership","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8579,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions\/8579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}