There is a lack of research about how to manage the advising role in purely virtual universities. This paper highlights the need for virtual universities to coordinate a large, distributed teaching staff through virtual workgroups. In the particular case of academic advising, these groups may function in a virtual, matrix structure -as occurs in the Open University of Catalonia-, thus generating specific coordination challenges. The paper elaborates an Input-Process-Output model that can be used as a guide for researching the effectiveness of matrixed, dispersed advisors. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.
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Rimbau-Gilabert, E., Martínez-Argüelles, M. J., & Ruiz-Dotras, E. (2013). Managing Matrixed, Dispersed Advisors in Virtual Universities. In Communications in Computer and Information Science (Vol. 278, pp. 669–676). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35879-1_83
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