Identifying Stakeholder Needs within Online Education

Abstract

Online teaching and online learning has been an invaluable component of education in the past decade. Demand for fully online or hybrid courses have been steadily increasing. Similar to any system or project, online education has stakeholders that have a major say in the direction online education takes. These stakeholders are identified as the faculty, the students, the academic institutions, and the industry. Each of these stakeholders will have different needs. This paper identifies these needs and demands and provides a holistic perspective within the context of online education that is intended to be used as support when looking at issues relating to online education.