|
|
Quality Assurance in Higher Education: A Framework for Distance Education
Mariam Tanweer, Mubashar Majeed Qadri
Abstract:
Quality assurance is a widely used term in academia. Quality assurance and
enhancement is possible only when the term ‘quality’ is defined clearly with a special
focus on pedagogical differences. Quality and its parameters can be different in different
instructional designs just as they can be different for different industries. Quality of
higher education in conventional and distance pedagogic design cannot be measured
through the same gauge. The paper is an attempt to rethink the concept of quality which
is necessary for a clearly distinctive instructional approach for higher education in
distance/online education. As comprehensive parameters are required to define quality
in distance and online Education, a framework is developed in the paper by creating an
inventory of factors with the help of System Approach for Program Evaluation to define
the parameters of quality in distance/online education.
Keywords:
Distance Education, Online Education, Higher Education, E-learning, Quality Assurance
Full Text:
PDF
|
|