A Case of Do or Die? The Fundamental Things that Apply to Online Leadership - Jay A. Halfond, New England Journal of Higher Ed

As the components of an online enterprise stabilize, and their hallmarks of excellence achieve a broad consensus, those qualities needed for its leadership will likewise become more apparent—along with the specialized staff that comprise this operation. In time, we are likely to see this as a standard entity with familiar titles and expectations similar to many other university functions. For now, however, we are in a time of flux and uncertainty and in the midst of a tension between those arguing for action and those suspicious that this will intrude on what has always been the purview of faculty within their departments. This is still the same old story—the dialectic between the administrative and the academic—now playing itself out in an unsettling age of new possibilities for instructional delivery with serious stakes for our array of academic institutions. http://www.nebhe.org/thejournal/a-case-of-do-or-die-the-fundamental-things-that-apply-to-online-leadership/