Quality in e-learning: a framework for promoting and assuring quality in virtual institutions.

With the growing demand for e-learning along with striving for excellence associated with globalization, there are worldwide calls for enhancing and assuring quality in e-learning, specifically in the context of the developing countries. Such calls for quality enhancement, accountability, added valu...

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Publicado en:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 27 - 42
Autores principales: Masoumi, D., Lindström, B.
Formato: tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2012
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Sumario:With the growing demand for e-learning along with striving for excellence associated with globalization, there are worldwide calls for enhancing and assuring quality in e-learning, specifically in the context of the developing countries. Such calls for quality enhancement, accountability, added value, value for money, self-evaluation, and role players' satisfaction in higher education settings cannot go unheeded. Addressing the concerns regarding enhancing and assuring quality in e-learning, a comprehensive e-quality framework is developed by taking into account the pros and cons of the previous models, frameworks, and studies of e-quality. This e-quality framework offers a structured set of factors and benchmarks as a tool for practical quality work with e-learning in virtual institutions.