Quality Education @ a Distance IFIP TC3 / WG3.6 Working Conference on Quality Education @ a Distance February 3–6, 2003, Geelong, Australia

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. -Quality of teaching and...

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Other Authors: Davies, G. (Editor), Stacey, Elizabeth (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
Series:IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Evaluation for knowledge: an approach to supporting the quality of learners’ community in higher education
  • Regulation of training systems for adults in educational technology
  • The challenge of measuring E-learning quality: some ideas from HCI
  • Improving distance education through Programme Quality Assurance
  • Stream D Administration and policy to support quality education @ a distance
  • Overview of stream D
  • Quality goes online: new challenges for Distance Education
  • Components of quality in distance education: distance education guidelines from different countries
  • Preserving the ‘human quality’ in education at a distance
  • Perspectives on the quality of online education: new conceptions of curriculum, student roles and learning?
  • Knowledge networks and inter-organisational learning in the context of information industry: issues for quality management
  • Establishing quality online: supporting productive academic teams
  • Information about authors
  • Overview of stream B
  • Quality practice in computer supported collaborative learning: identifying research gaps and opportunities
  • Factors influencing quality online learning experiences
  • Building productive online learning communities: investigating and interacting with internet educational genres
  • Quality @ a distance includes preservice teachers: one democratic approach
  • CMC to support an online learning environment
  • Using concept maps to improve the quality of learning law at a distance
  • Improving the quality of distance education through online learning
  • Actor network theory and the study of online learning: new perspectives on quality
  • Quantifying quality: an examination of the factors which define ‘quality’ in a professional development program
  • Stream C Measuring quality: evaluation and assessment.-Overview of stream C
  • Developing an evaluation methodology for ICT supported learning: enhancing and promoting quality through ‘change knowledge’
  • Quality Education @ a Distance Conference overview
  • Keynotes
  • Globalisation and reflexivity: some challenges for research into quality education mediated by ICTs
  • Quality assurance and quality development: what will make a difference?
  • Necessary aspects of quality in eLearning systems
  • Stream A Quality of systems that support online learning
  • Overview of stream A
  • What do we need to know about e-learning standards?
  • Quality model for multi-level course specification and delivery
  • Enhancing distance learning using quality digital libraries and CITIDEL
  • Systems support for virtualizing traditional courses in science and engineering
  • A QoS-aware network supporting an E-learning framework
  • Developing a local framework for quality in an online learning environment: a case study
  • Students’ perspective of online learning
  • Digital libraries: quality resources for distance education
  • Stream B Quality of teaching and learning experiences