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Saturday, December 01, 2007
Current Administrative Structures Used for Online Degree Program Offerings in Higher Education - Rocco Paolucci and Stephen F. Gambescia, OJDLA
This study identified the range of general administrative structures that universities are currently using in offering online degree programs. A typology is identified that accounts for the extent and nature of these general administrative structures through our analyzing 239 universities selected for offering at least one graduate degree fully online. The study looked at the launch date trends as they relate to selection of one of the six general administrative structures emerging into a typology: 1) Academic Department; 2) Continuing Education/Professional Studies Unit; 3)Distance Education Unit; 4) Consortium; 5) Alliance and 6) Outsource. We learned that 90 percent of schools in our study are delivering their online degree programs with an Internally-based administrative arrangement. Only 10 percent of the schools we investigated are using some type of External administrative structure to offer their online degree programs. More specifically, when we look at the locus of control for internally-based administrative programs, we see that 62 percent of those schools analyzed for this study still have the academic departments in control. When examining the frequency of launch dates for the respective Internal administrative structures for the yearly range 1998 to 2004, we found two significant trends: The decrease in the Department as a chosen Internal administrative structure and the more recent popularity of the Distance Education Unit as the chosen administrative structure. Findings from this research corroborate, clarify, or correct findings from prior research that looked at administrative structures used for online degree programs. Research limitations are given. Authors outline their areas for further investigation.
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