Partner Power: A study of two distance education consortia

This research reports findings from a study which explored the process and criteria of partner selection – how and why partners are chosen – for two distance education consortia. The researchers reviewed recent literature on partnerships and partner selection. Two Canada-wide distance education cons...

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Autores principales:	Anne Banks Pidduck, Tom Carey
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2006
Materias:	distance education higher education e-learning online learning Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d2315e22b1414966a1c59a80d94d792c2021-12-02T19:20:40ZPartner Power: A study of two distance education consortia10.19173/irrodl.v7i3.3301492-3831https://doaj.org/article/d2315e22b1414966a1c59a80d94d792c2006-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/330https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831This research reports findings from a study which explored the process and criteria of partner selection – how and why partners are chosen – for two distance education consortia. The researchers reviewed recent literature on partnerships and partner selection. Two Canada-wide distance education consortia were identified as large-scale case studies for investigation of the research theory. A total of 34 informants were contacted. Written business plans, contracts, documents, partner network diagrams, and 231 archival emails from 36 correspondents were collected and analyzed for the two consortia. The research identified four criteria that influence why specific partners are chosen: requirements, resource availability, social network, and reputation. These findings suggest that the formation of partnerships and the process of partner selection are both very complex.Anne Banks PidduckTom CareyAthabasca University Pressarticledistance educationhigher educatione-learningonline learningSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 7, Iss 3 (2006)
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description	This research reports findings from a study which explored the process and criteria of partner selection – how and why partners are chosen – for two distance education consortia. The researchers reviewed recent literature on partnerships and partner selection. Two Canada-wide distance education consortia were identified as large-scale case studies for investigation of the research theory. A total of 34 informants were contacted. Written business plans, contracts, documents, partner network diagrams, and 231 archival emails from 36 correspondents were collected and analyzed for the two consortia. The research identified four criteria that influence why specific partners are chosen: requirements, resource availability, social network, and reputation. These findings suggest that the formation of partnerships and the process of partner selection are both very complex.
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Partner Power: A study of two distance education consortia

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