Periodic Review

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The institution can respond to short-term volatility during the review period while preserving its longterm strategic objective. It acknowledges that planning is an ongoing, systematic process. the procedure, as well as the fact that the plan is a dynamic, live document (Watkins, 2004).

The impact of changes to internal strengths and weaknesses, external opportunities, and threats, asassumptions, and the original mission and goals must be identified and evaluated on a regular basis. The institution has to set up a regularity for the review procedure.

As much as possible, it should be coordinated with current cycles, such as the annual budget cycle or academic cycles. Finally, it must decide how modifications to the larger organization will be made and lessons learned will be conveyed. ABOVE

Integration of tools, communication, data, time during periodic reviews.

A CRUCIAL COMPONENT OF STRATEGIC PLANNING IS REVIEW

HOW DOES DMU CONDUCT PERIODIC REVIEWS

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The university uses periodic reviews as a tool to evaluate programs and subjects overall, while also considering the quality and standards of the service provided and allowing for external and independent confirmation. By demonstrating the university's ability to self-regulate, this increases the confidence of outside organizations.

Benefits of the process also include enabling new approaches and current practices to be developed and enhanced, and for good practice to be recognized and disseminated. The periodic review focus has been refreshed to ensure greater emphasis on risk management and flexibility regarding the format and mode (virtual, blended, face to face) of review events.

PERIODIC REVIEW TECHNIQUE

·The scope of each review must be such to enable appropriate level of scrutiny and consideration ·Faculty based collaborative provision will be included within faculty periodic review events. University Wide Learning (UWL) provision will have its own separate periodic reviews. ·Review groupings will be determined based on what it is reasonable for a panel to consider. ·Faculties and Educational Partnerships will continue to be responsible for fees and travel expenses for external panel members, catering etc ·There will be a risk-based approach to review

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The importance of digital link in strategic planning

Distance learning has revolutionized education in more ways than one due to innovations in technology-driven delivery media. It has fundamentally altered the strategic environment. Institutions no longer use state borders or a finite radius of a few hundred miles to define the market or assess competitiveness. The market and competition for the product of distant learning are now global.

The distance learning institution must develop a strategy that allows it to reinforce its position against threats and weaknesses while taking advantage of opportunities and strengths to flourish or survive in this environment. When done correctly, a strategic planning process offers a solution to today's problems. as Boar points out, he cautions that "the results of the process are only as good as the intellectual investment of the participants in thinking thoroughly about the challenges. What differentiates is insight, not the mechanical use of analytical procedures (1993, p. 15).