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Programming and Delivery Division; Open Campus Country Sites; the Consortium for Social Development and Research; and the Open Campus Academy of Sport. It articulates the programme planning, design, development, approval and delivery processes, including quality assurance systems at each stage of the process.
The Chapter delineates the various structures which support student success, including ‘Ask a Librarian’ facility, tutoring, academic monitoring, and continuous
professional development for facilitators. It discusses the student end-of-course evaluation instrument and student orientation. It uses the findings from the student, alumni and tutor accreditation survey instruments to substantiate its claims. The Chapter concludes by summarising the many strengths, including the improvements following the operationalisation of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system which has streamlined and amalgamated the various processes into one virtual system.
The analysis of the evidence provided in this chapter shows the Campus’s continued committed to the delivery of high quality programmes. It concludes by indicating that the evidence has shown that the Campus has met the requirements of Standard 3 and Protocol 8 of the Code of Practice for the Assurance of Educational Quality and Standards in Distance Education (BAC, 2012).
Chapter 6
Chapter 6 addresses Standard 4: Readiness for Change. This Chapter commences by showing how the Campus has been, from inception, at the forefront of emerging trends in higher education. It further shows how the Campus, through its planning and monitoring processes, has responded to the challenging regional and global economic environment. As a largely self-financing entity, the Campus has sought to diversify its funding model through the acquisition of external funding. For example, the Government of Canada (GAC) funding to advance distance education
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