Transformational Change in Delivery at Open Polytechnic, New Zealand
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2019-03Abstract
As long ago as 1992, Greville Rumble was writing about the “competitive vulnerabilities”
of single-mode distance teaching institutions [universities]. In the intervening years the challenges
he described have only intensified, especially so as advancing information and communication
technologies have enabled increasing numbers of campus-based tertiary institutions to enter
distance learning, usually targeting the part-time adult learner market that was formerly the
preserve of single-mode distance learning providers.
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