How is distance education managed in mixed-mode institutions?

In recent years teachers and trainers in conventional colleges, universities, school systems, and training departments have chosen to offer their courses off campus through audio- or videoconferencing or, even more recently, by Internet. They simply add the distance learners to their regular students, teaching in traditional ways. Distance learning programs in mixed-mode institutions do not have their own faculty or administrative services.

Mixed-mode teaching may occur in dual-mode institutions, as it does in many U.S. universities. Some of the courses are designed, delivered, and administered by the distance education department, while others are offered and administered by an academic department. (This arrangement is as confusing as it seems—for everyone involved.)

• W. Morrow, Mixed-mode Provision in a South African University
  
  

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