Open AccessOpening Open Universities: The Canadian Experience
Author(s) -
Jackie Daniel,
Wendell Allen Smith
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
canadian journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2293-6602
pISSN - 0316-1218
DOI - 10.47678/cjhe.v9i2.182792
Subject(s) - institution , perspective (graphical) , political science , organisation climate , public administration , higher education , management , sociology , public relations , economics , computer science , law , artificial intelligence
This article examines, from an administrative/management perspective, the two open universities which have been created in Canada in the 1970's, Athabasca University in Alberta and the Te´le´-universite´ in Que´bec. A study of the initial planning reveals that effective planning requires balanced attention to means and ends. The new management structures required for this type of institution, coupled with the climate of acute uncertainty in which it operates in the early days, require particularly able and committed leadership. That both institutions have been rather successful argues for the importance of the open university concept itself.