Quality Education @ a Distance: IFIP TC3 / WG3.6 Working Conference on Quality Education @ a Distance February 3–6, 2003, Geelong, AustraliaG. Davies, Elizabeth Stacey This book considers several aspects of providing quality education at a distance: Quality of systems that support online learning, quality support infrastructure, quality of technical access and support, materials distribution; issues in each of these areas are considered. It contains the papers presented at the working conference of Working Group 3.6 (Distance Education) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP Geelong, Australia, Feb. 2003). |
Contents
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Quality assurance and quality development | 17 |
Necessary aspects of quality in eLearning systems I | 29 |
Quality of systems that support online learning | 38 |
What do we need to know about eIearningstandards? | 45 |
Quality model for multilevel course specification anddelivery | 53 |
Enhancing distance learning using quality digitallibraries and CITIDEL | 61 |
Systems support for virtualizing traditional courses inscience and engineering | 72 |
Using concept maps to improve the quality oflearning law at a distance | 161 |
Improving the quality of distance education throughonline learning | 169 |
Actor network theory and the study of online learning | 179 |
Quantifying quality | 189 |
evaluation and assessment | 198 |
Evaluation for knowledge | 211 |
Regulation of training systems for adults ineducational technology | 221 |
Improving distance education through ProgrammeQuality Assurance | 239 |
A QoSaware network supporting an EIearningframework | 83 |
a case study | 93 |
Students perspective of online learning | 101 |
Digital libraries | 109 |
Quality of teaching and learning experiences | 113 |
Quality practice in computer supported collaborativelearning | 119 |
Factors influencing quality online learningexperiences | 129 |
Building productive online learning communities | 137 |
Quality a distance includes preservice teachers | 145 |
CMC to support an online learning environment | 153 |
Administration and policy to support qualityeducation a distance | 247 |
Quality goes online | 249 |
Components of quality in distance education | 257 |
Preserving the human quality in education at adistance | 265 |
Perspectives on the quality of online education | 273 |
Knowledge networks and interorganisationallearning in the context of information industry | 281 |
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Quality Education a Distance | 298 |
Information about authors | 299 |
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