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- Title
- Quality issues in distance education
- Author(s)
- Davies, Gordon; Lawrence-Fowler, Wendy; Doube, Wendy; Shaffer, Dale
- Abstract
- The recent discussion at the annual convention of the American Federation of Teachers and the subsequent resolution that was passed highlights the concern felt by many about the quality of distance education programs. There are many who feel that the quality of the teaching, the support that students receive and the information provided to students is not as good in a distance education environment as in a conventional face-to-face situation. The panelists come from a variety of institutions and will explain how quality is assured at their institutions and claim that students who do learn at a distance receive as good an education as those in the face-to-face environment. Evidence to justify the claim will be produced. Factors such as the cost of the provision and the scalability of the operation are factors that will also be discussed.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Source
- Proceedings of the 32nd Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2001), Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 21-25 February 2001 / Henry MacKay Walker, Renee A. McCauley, Judith L. Gersting and Ingrid Russell (eds.), pp. 392-393
- Publication year
- 2001
- Keyword(s)
- Distance education; Flexible delivery modes; Educational quality; Educational technologies
- Publisher
- ACM
- ISBN
- 9781581133295, 1581133294
- Publisher URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/364447.364755
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2001 ACM.
- Peer reviewed
