Managing the Development of Technology-Based Courses: Success Factors from Eight Government Training Courses

Abstract

A study was conducted to determine whether success factors identified in traditional higher education distance learning research literature were important to technology-based course development efforts at Defense Acquisition University (DAU). The study included a literature review a list of candidate success factors from the literature data collected through interviews with eight faculty course development managers and data analysis to correlate findings with the research literature. The study indicates that many of the success factors found in the literature were also important to management of the DAU course development projects. A number of additional success factors identified were important for the DAU courses and may be important for other distance education development environments. Recommendations for development managers of distance education courses are proposed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA423604

Entities

People

  • Ellen Bunker
  • John Bennett
  • Kurt Rowley

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Data Analysis
  • Distance Learning
  • Education
  • Governments
  • Human Resources
  • Instructors
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Program Management
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • STEM Education
  • Theoretical Analysis.