How is distance education managed in dual-mode institutions?

In institutions that provide conventional and distance education simultaneously, the distance education is usually managed by a special unit. This unit normally has administrative staff whose sole responsibility is distance education. It may also have dedicated faculty, though most units call on the parent body's faculty to provide most of the teaching. The management of the distance education division is accountable to higher authority, unlike in the single-mode institution, where there is no higher authority. Funding and other management decisions are made with the interests of the parent body in mind as well as those of the distance teaching program.

More on dual mode institutions

• David Sewart, Single Mode Versus Dual Mode: A Fair Question?

• John Chick, The New England Model in Theory and Practice

• Commonwealth of Learning, Propositions related to the development of dual mode institutions

• Patrick Guiton, Murdoch University: Interlocking the Learning Modes
  
  

Resources on dual mode institutions (external links)

• Penn State Distance Education available at: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/DE/
  (click on Distance Education Reports, Task Force Report.) Permission to link granted.

• University of Waterloo available at: http://dce.uwaterloo.ca. Permission to link granted.

• Universidad Virtual del Sistema Tecnologico de Monterrey available at: http://www.ruv.itesm.mx/. Permission to link granted.