E-LEARNING STRATEGIES OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AN EXPLORATY STUDY INTO THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTINGENCIES ON STRATEGIC CHOICES OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTEGRATING E-LEARNING IN THEIR EDUCATION DELIVERY AND SUPPORT PROCESSES ISBN 90-365-2376-1 © 2006, P. Boezerooij Alle rechten voorbehouden. Niets uit deze uitgave mag worden verveelvoudigd, opgeslagen in een geautomatiseerd gegevensbestand, of openbaar gemaakt, in enige vorm of op enige wijze, hetzij elektronisch, mechanisch, door fotokopieën, opnamen of enig andere manier, zonder voorafgaande schriftelijke toestemming van de auteur. Voor zover het maken van kopieën uit deze uitgave is toegestaan op grond van artikel 16B Auteurswet 1912 jo, het besluit van 20 juni 1974, Stb. 351, zoals gewijzigd bij het Besluit van 23 augustus 1985, Stb. 471 en artikel 17 Auteurswet 1912, dient men de daarvoor wettelijk verschuldigde vergoedingen te voldoen aan de Stichting Reprorecht (Postbus 882, 1180 Amstelveen). Voor het overnemen van gedeelte(n) uit deze uitgave in bloemlezingen, readers en andere compilatiewerken (artikel 16 Auteurswet 1912) dient men zich tot de uitgever te wenden. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system of any nature, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying or recording, without prior written permission of the author. Cover design: Lucy Keizer Printed by UNITISK, Czech Republik. Published by CHEPS/UT, Postbus 217, 7500 AE Enschede,
[email protected] E-LEARNING STRATEGIES OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AN EXPLORATY STUDY INTO THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTINGENCIES ON STRATEGIC CHOICES OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTEGRATING E-LEARNING IN THEIR EDUCATION DELIVERY AND SUPPORT PROCESSES PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit Twente, op gezag van de rector magnificus, prof.dr.W.H.M. Zijm volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties in het openbaar te verdedigen op donderdag 15 juni 2006 om 15.00 uur door Petra Boezerooij geboren op 30 september 1971 te Barsingerhorn Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door de promotoren: Prof.dr. M.C. van der Wende Prof.dr. J. Huisman Referent: Dr. P.H.G. Fisser Overige leden van de promotiecommissie: Prof. Dr. B.A. Collis Prof. Dr. J. van Hillegersberg Prof. Dr. W.B.G. Liebrand Prof.dr. M. Valcke Preface An emergent or planned strategy? That is a good starting point for explaining the result that lies in front of you: my PhD about e-Learning strategies of higher education institutions. Writing my PhD was a combination of having the emergence of ideas, theories and results and a planned, practical and structured process. It is about ideas that were not present at all when I started as a researcher at CHEPS in 1996. But, over the years, fostered by discussions about science, the profession of a researcher and/or practitioner and project results that seemed to be ideal for further and deeper exploration, the idea of writing a PhD slowly emerged. Discussions at the EAIR 2002 conference in Prague were in the end the starting point of my career as a promovenda. The first period can be characterised by a mostly emergent strategy of collecting ideas and theories. It was after that, that the characteristics of a more planned strategy turned out to be of importance; at least in my experiences, writing a PhD meant: planning, structure, setting directions and delivering deadlines. Both processes could not have been achieved without the support of my family, friends and colleagues. This preface provides me with the oppor