Quality Education @ a Distance

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.