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

摘要

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.