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Quality Education @ a Distance

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

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  1. Gordon Davies

    1. Open University, UK

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  2. Elizabeth Stacey

    1. Deakin University, Australia

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Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 131)

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Quality Education @ a Distance

    1. Quality Education @ a Distance

      • Gordon Davies, Elizabeth Stacey
      Pages 1-2

  4. Quality of systems that support online learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-43
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    2. What do we need to know about e-learning standards?

      • M. Llamas, L. Anido, J. Rodríguez, M. Fernández, J. Santos, M. Caeiro
      Pages 45-52

    3. Quality model for multi-level course specification and delivery

      • Brian Garner
      Pages 53-60

    4. Enhancing distance learning using quality digital libraries and CITIDEL

      • John A. N. Lee, John Impagliazzo, Lillian Cassel, Edward Fox, Lee Giles, Deborah Knox et al.
      Pages 61-71

    5. Systems support for virtualizing traditional courses in science and engineering

      • Thomas Ottmann, Stephan Trahasch, Tobias Lauer
      Pages 73-82

    6. A QoS-aware network supporting an E-learning framework

      • Antonio Pescapè, Stefano Russo, Vincenzo Vecchio, Giorgio Ventre
      Pages 83-92

    7. Developing a local framework for quality in an online learning environment: a case study

      • R. McDougall, M. Flanders, R. Buchanan, S. Lindsay
      Pages 93-100

    8. Students’ perspective of online learning

      • Jo Coldwell, Jason Wells
      Pages 101-108

    9. Digital libraries

      • John Impagliazzo, John A. N. Lee, Sue McKnight, Nicki McLaurin-Smith
      Pages 109-111

  5. Quality of teaching and learning experiences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-118
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    2. Quality practice in computer supported collaborative learning

      • Peter J. Smith, Elizabeth Stacey
      Pages 119-128

    3. Factors influencing quality online learning experiences

      • Ron Oliver, Jan Herrington
      Pages 129-136

    4. Building productive online learning communities

      • Roger Carlsen
      Pages 137-144

    5. Quality @ a distance includes preservice teachers

      • Niki Davis, Rema Nilakanta
      Pages 145-152

    6. CMC to support an online learning environment

      • Dianne P. Chambers
      Pages 153-160
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Keywords

About this book

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 learning experiences, including a range of institutional projects using online technologies and issues of quality provision as well as areas of current and needed research.

-Measuring quality - evaluation and assessment looks at recent research in working towards sustainable quality learning by considering quality evaluation as a collective process.

-Administration and policy to support quality education @ a distance including institutional approaches to assuring quality and identification of differing perspectives for consideration.

Quality Education @ a Distance contains the papers presented at the working conference of Working Group 3.6 (Distance Education) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Held in Geelong, Australia in February 2003, the conference was organised in four parallel streams to consider the aspects grouped above, sharing presentations and discussions about establishing quality online environments for distance education.
The QED conference attracted some of the key people in their fields both internationally and from within Australia. In addition to the papers presented at the conference, Quality Education @ a Distance contains an overview of each stream and a report of the discussions that took place in the stream groups. The papers presented by three international keynote speakers are also included.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Open University, UK

    Gordon Davies

  • Deakin University, Australia

    Elizabeth Stacey

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