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Assignment 2 (option 2): Vice-President/Vice-Principal for a Day
 You are the Vice-President, Academic (or a Vice-Principal in a large school). After months of work from numerous committees, the university/college/school has set a new vision for the institution: ‘A university/school without boundaries’. The vision covers the use of e-learning for both on-campus and off-campus teaching. The President/Principal has requested you to provide her with your recommendations as to how best to implement this vision through the use of e-learning. Drawing on your own context, prepare a report for the President/Principal with your recommendations. The report should identify what changes are needed, and a set of institution-wide strategies for implementing these changes. Reasons should be given for the changes and the choice of strategies. It will be helpful for your instructors if you could spend a few paragraphs describing the context that applies to this assignment. You are of course free to create your own imaginary context. Do not try to cover all possible strategies. Choose five or six key strategies and describe them in some detail. This assignment should be **3,500 words ** in length. Anything over 3500 words will **NOT ** be marked. Submit your assignment in Word or Rich Text Format using the Vista assignment submission tool. In assessing your assignment instructors will be applying the following criteria:
 * 1)  How clear is the summary description of the institutional context?
 * 2)  How well does the assignment draw on material in Unit 3?
 * 3)  Where alternative approaches are possible, how well is the choice of the approach justified? How sensitive is the assignment to possible problems and difficulties of any recommended approaches?
 * 4)  What steps have been taken to ensure buy-in from faculty/teachers and students?
 * 5)  How concrete and firm are the recommendations?
 * 6)  To what extent does the assignment include new ideas not covered elsewhere in this course?
 * 7)  How realistic and credible are the proposals?