Assuring Quality in E-learning

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 value, value for money, self-evaluation, and role players’ satisfaction in higher education settings ...

Exploring the mechanisms for assuring quality of e-learning courses in UK higher education institutions

English This paper reports on a research study aimed at understanding how dual mode higher education institutions in the UK approach the application of their internal quality assurance procedures to their online courses in order to allow them to assure and enhance their quality. The research strategy aimed to identify whether the procedures implemented were capturing the aspects that characteri...

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Assuring Performance in E-commerce Systems

Performance Assurance is a methodology that, when applied during the design and development cycle, will greatly increase the chances of an e-Commerce project satisfying user performance requirements first time round. This paper discusses the primary risk factors in development projects, the keys to a successful risk management programme, and the tools required. It also discusses problems that c...

Special Section: Assuring Information Quality

DONALD BALLOU is an Emeritus member of the faculty of the School of Business at the University at Albany. His graduate degrees are in applied mathematics, and his research has involved modeling in a variety of fields, including nonlinear fluid flow, production quality control, regional and transportation planning, information resource management, and especially data and information quality. At ...