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
Quality Education a Distance | 1 |
what will make | 17 |
Stream A Quality of systems that support online learning | 39 |
Quality model for multilevel course specification and delivery | 53 |
Systems support for virtualizing traditional courses in science | 73 |
Developing a local framework for quality in an online learning | 93 |
quality resources for distance education | 109 |
Factors influencing quality online learning experiences | 129 |
some ideas | 231 |
Improving distance education through Programme Quality | 239 |
Administration and policy to support quality | 247 |
Preserving the human quality in education at a distance | 265 |
Knowledge networks and interorganisational learning | 281 |
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Information about authors | 299 |
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