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IMPORTANCE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING IN INITIATING DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS WRITTEN BY TERESITA BANAG We heard "strategic planning" in the business world. But did you know that strategic planning is not just for the business world? While strategic plans are around within the education sector since the 1980s, it’s not as normally known. Schools benefit from this approach, which helps them achieve goals to improve student outcomes and become a more efficient and effective organization.
So why is strategic planning critical in education?
PLAN AHEAD!!!
EXPECTATIONS
Strategic planning assumptions allow the institution to plan ahead with a degree of certainty about what their institution will look like. These represent the shared values, beliefs, and vision of the management team. This is the very foundation on which the plan has been built (Hollingworth, 2008).
There are expectations in strategic planning in initiating DE Programs. Administrators forcasts the growth in the number of enrollees in each of their programs. With this in mind, they have to develop some of the courses and programs and pass through the accreditation. By doing this they have to review every five
years all the courses and programs. With quality control, the courses, programs, and graduates must be up to the standards of any other university.
BE UPDATED! Institutional leaders expect to be innovative in their approach. They must have a lot of data from surveys, interviews, and focus groups and go over the
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