Higher Education Capacity Building: Looking to the future

Abstract

This position paper provides a capacity-building perspective to support the changing nature of the Australian higher education landscape as articulated in the Bradley Review (2009). Distance education is becoming more ubiquitous as professional learning and development increasingly requires just-in-time information and is a life-long learning process. A review of research and theoretical literature in the fields of academic development, leadership and change as applied to higher education provides the foundation for discussion of capacity building within this ubiquitous context.