Managing Matrixed, Dispersed Advisors in Virtual Universities - Springer

Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 278, 2013, pp 669-676

Managing Matrixed, Dispersed Advisors in Virtual Universities

• Eva Rimbau-Gilabert,
• María J. Martínez-Argüelles,
• Elisabet Ruiz-Dotras

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Abstract

There is a lack of research about how to manage the advising role in purely virtual universities. This paper highlights the need for virtual universities to coordinate a large, distributed teaching staff through virtual workgroups. In the particular case of academic advising, these groups may function in a virtual, matrix structure –as occurs in the Open University of Catalonia-, thus generating specific coordination challenges. The paper elaborates an Input-Process-Output model that can be used as a guide for researching the effectiveness of matrixed, dispersed advisors.

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Managing Matrixed, Dispersed Advisors in Virtual Universities - Springer