Artefact 6, the second assignment in MDE 605, is a paper on business planning that stemmed from the first assignment in the same course. In the first assignment, I constructed a business plan for a Free and Open School System (FOSS). FOSS, as a prototype would be free of charge, open admission and distance-only mode of study. Continuing on the same theme in the second assignment, I blended various proven distance educational strategies and devised a business case for an open and distance learning (ODL) agency. Artefact 6 is essentially a literature review describing the business functions and main cost drivers of a distance learning organization.

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