The Centralisation of eLearning Resource Development within the New Zealand Vocational Tertiary Education Sector
The tertiary education sector is subject to significant and rapid change such as disruption from technology, diminishing government funding, demand for more personalised learning, and the need to meet the demands of a rapidly changing workplace. These changes create challenges. The centralisation of...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2019-01, Vol.35 (5), p.95 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The tertiary education sector is subject to significant and rapid change such as disruption from technology, diminishing government funding, demand for more personalised learning, and the need to meet the demands of a rapidly changing workplace. These changes create challenges. The centralisation of skills and resources has been mooted as potentially contributing to solutions for some of these challenges such as maintaining quality at scale, and maximising cost effectiveness. The lack of research, however, around centralised development of e-learning resources makes it difficult to argue that such a claim applies to e-learning resource development. This article describes the extent and form of functional centralisation of e-learning resource development in the vocational tertiary education sector within New Zealand. Findings established that three categories of organisational centralisation exist; decentralised, centralised, and highly centralised. The majority of the institutions in this study fitted the centralised or highly centralised categories. These findings can be used to inform decisions around organisation of e-learning resource development, the composition of central teams, and the centralisation of entire sectors within tertiary education. |
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ISSN: | 1449-5554 1449-3098 1449-5554 |
DOI: | 10.14742/ajet.4536 |