Distance Education Leaders' Perspectives: A Study of How Select Higher Education Institutions Implement and Lead Online Distance Education Programs
Author
Hummell, Laura Johnson
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to study the perspectives, characteristics, and experiences of ten distance education leaders at four-year, not-for-profit, degree-granting higher education institutions implementing online distance education programs. Using a dominant qualitative approach, this study explored leaders' distance education perspectives, theoretical influences, professional experiences, the selected institutions' demographic information, and the participants' personal characteristics. This study examined the leaders' theoretical perspectives using the Leadership Practices Inventory-Self as one part of the overall research framework and data collection process. Then, using semi-structured interviews and demographic data, this study triangulated the data, garnered in-depth information, and analyzed emerging themes. Finally, this study explored how these factors affected the ways in which distance education leaders design, staff, implement, support and lead their distance education programs.
Date
2008-04-09
Citation:
APA:
Hummell, Laura Johnson.
(April 2008).
Distance Education Leaders' Perspectives: A Study of How Select Higher Education Institutions Implement and Lead Online Distance Education Programs
(Doctoral Dissertation, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship.
(http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1076.)
MLA:
Hummell, Laura Johnson.
Distance Education Leaders' Perspectives: A Study of How Select Higher Education Institutions Implement and Lead Online Distance Education Programs.
Doctoral Dissertation. East Carolina University,
April 2008. The Scholarship.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1076.
December 11, 2023.
Chicago:
Hummell, Laura Johnson,
“Distance Education Leaders' Perspectives: A Study of How Select Higher Education Institutions Implement and Lead Online Distance Education Programs”
(Doctoral Dissertation., East Carolina University,
April 2008).
AMA:
Hummell, Laura Johnson.
Distance Education Leaders' Perspectives: A Study of How Select Higher Education Institutions Implement and Lead Online Distance Education Programs
[Doctoral Dissertation]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University;
April 2008.
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Publisher
East Carolina University