Open and Distance Learning Vision of Higher Education Institutions in Turkey: Implications for Leadership

Kara, Mehmet

doi:10.55982/openpraxis.14.1.480

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“…According to Kara (2022), a firm's vision statement is a reflection of its beliefs and objectives to inspire and engage employees and stakeholders. According to Kantabutra and Ketprapakorn (2020), strategic leaders are persons at various levels of the business who utilize the strategic management process to select activities that are in line with the company's vision and accomplish its goal.…”

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confidence: 99%

Navigating academic excellence: Understanding how university vision impacts staff effectiveness

Ogbari

2024

Hum. Resour. Manag. Serv.

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<p>Vision statements are seen as important factors that come before the development of strategies. They excel in encapsulating the strategic direction of a company, clearly defining its scope, boundaries, and the process of creating value. Vision statements function as comprehensive frameworks that guide the development of several strategic elements, including mission, strategic capabilities, strategic intent, objectives, goals, core values, standards of behavior, and business models. However, research on this subject remains scanty, particularly within academia. Therefore, this study examined the impact of university vision on staff effectiveness building on the transformational leadership theory and the strategic leadership theory. The study adopted positivist research philosophy. The research employed a cross-sectional study design. This study employed a descriptive research design. Questionnaires were devised by the researcher to collect data from a randomly selected group of 186 academic personnel from the four colleges in a private university using stratified sampling. Data obtained was subject to validity checks using composite reliability, average variance extracted (AVE) estimate, and Cronbach Alpha coefficient. The findings reveal that the vision of the university had a significant but weak impact on the effectiveness of staff. Based on the findings and conclusions, the study suggests that the University’s organizational vision should be consistently improved and effectively conveyed to staff members to direct their efforts toward achieving the university’s vision.<strong></strong></p>

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Section: Conceptual Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

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Navigating academic excellence: Understanding how university vision impacts staff effectiveness

Ogbari

2024

Hum. Resour. Manag. Serv.

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“…Embracing a learner-centric, personalized education approach requires reassessing the institutional values of OUs and enriching traditional mass education models with tailored learning experiences (Kara, 2022). This refinement involves enhancing their longstanding values and educational models to accommodate personalized learning experiences beyond their current framework.…”

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Personalized Education for All: The Future of Open Universities

Jung

2024

Open Praxis

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This paper charts a forward-looking roadmap for open universities, drawing upon their historical evolution and current practices. It advocates a shift toward a universally accessible, personalized education system. At the heart of this proposed advancement lies the customization of learning paths and experiences, where individualized advising and mentorship, and a variety of learning content, resources, and environments are essential. The study underscores the importance of integrating advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain into the open and distance education system. Within the discourse, the paper delineates three primary areas for open universities to address: system transformation, expansion of openness, and integration of digital innovation. The concluding part of the paper offers possible strategic recommendations for policymakers and researchers of open universities. The essence of these recommendations is advocating for a universally personalized educational paradigm while making a strong case for addressing the digital divide, fostering strong partnerships at both global and community levels, and supporting the use of the latest technology to its fullest potential. By navigating this transformative journey, open universities are not just participating in the evolution of educational models but also poised to lead a revolution in the broader landscape of higher education.

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“…From the coding process, four themes concerning vision attributes, vision content, vision communication and sustainability performance emerged. The attributes of effective vision statements are brevity, clarity, future orientation, stability, challenges, abstractness and an ability to inspire, which have been widely endorsed by scholars as effective vision attributes, e.g., [125][126][127][128][129][130][131][132][133][134][135]. In terms of vision content, there are several content imageries supporting this theme, including those related to motive, venture growth, sales, leadership and stakeholder satisfaction imageries.…”

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What do We Know about Vision? A Sustainability Lens

Kantabutra

2023

Sustainability

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Given the paucity of knowledge on sustainability-related organizational vision, the present study’s objective is to examine the current state of the organizational vision knowledge base with a sustainability focus. It adapts the Integrated Systematic Literature Review approach. Five hundred and four journal articles from Scopus between 1981 and October 2022 are identified and reviewed. Influential journals, scholars and documents concerning organizational vision in the sustainability context are identified, along with four schools of thought on Organizational Vision: Vision Component, Vision Motivation, Transformational Vision and Educational Vision. Overall, findings suggest that organizational vision scholars have focused their efforts on organizational vision in a way that leads to organizational productivity as opposed to sustainability productivity. This knowledge gap is fundamentally critical for sustainability scholars and practitioners alike since (a) organizational culture with vision as a core component is a pre-condition for sustainable enterprise development and (b) sustainability transformations are fundamental changes in cultures that move socio-technical systems toward sustainable production and consumption. Drawing from the identified body of knowledge, a model linking organizational vision and sustainability-related organizational performance is derived as a major contribution of the present study. The model explains how vision components theoretically lead to improved sustainability performance, followed by theoretical, empirical and practical implications as significant contributions to the field of corporate sustainability.

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Open and Distance Learning Vision of Higher Education Institutions in Turkey: Implications for Leadership

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Navigating academic excellence: Understanding how university vision impacts staff effectiveness

Navigating academic excellence: Understanding how university vision impacts staff effectiveness

Personalized Education for All: The Future of Open Universities

What do We Know about Vision? A Sustainability Lens

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