Quality Education @ a Distance, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003 IFIP TC3 / WG3.6 Working Conference on Quality Education @ a Distance February 3–6, 2003, Geelong, Australia IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series, Vol. 131

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 @ aDistance 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.

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.- 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’.- 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.