**15. Conclusions and future work**

This Chapter has highlighted the challenges of ODL in dual mode universities with particular reference to Makerere University. It has shown that adequate funding is the key to efficient student support services. With a proper ODL policy in place, ODL programmes themselves can generate funds that can sustain them and other activities of the universities where they belong. The Chapter has also shown that an on-campus based programme mindset is so awash in dual mode universities and is detrimental to the successful running of ODL programmes as staff treat ODL learners in a similar way as on-campus based learners. Despite all these challenges, ODL present enormous possibilities for increasing access to higher education and improving universities' balance sheets. When these basic facts are known, the unexploited potentials of running ODL programmes shall be harnessed. The future of ODL in dual mode institutions lies in recognizing the uniqueness of this mode of delivery by operationalising separate sets of policies and strategies for ODL and on-campus based learning.
