Online Leadership at the Vortex of Academic Destiny - Jay A. Halfond, New England Journal of Higher Education

Over the past year, I have been conducting qualitative research on those institutions with a bias towards action—and interviewing academic leaders at 29 universities where significant progress has occurred in restructuring online initiatives. We are in a time of flux, as organizational models emerge and evolve. Though institutions engage in independent, internal efforts to build their own unique models, they are following remarkably similar paths and arriving at very similar places.... Online education has reduced local monopolies, expanded student choice and pitted institutions against one another in a way that places some at risk and others in the position of vastly expanding their size and reach. Academic fate will largely be in the hands of those given the mandate to develop and grow online distance learning. (Jay A. Halfond is the former dean of Boston University’s Metropolitan College. He is currently the Wiley Deltak Senior Fellow and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Online Leadership and Strategy) http://www.nebhe.org/thejournal/online-leadership-at-the-vortex-of-academic-destiny/