Assuring Quality in Online Learning

Assuring Quality in Online Course Delivery

This paper examines the critical issue of assuring quality online course delivery by examining four key components of online teaching and learning. The topic of course delivery is viewed as a cultural issue that permeates processes from the design of an online course to its evaluation. First, the authors examine and review key components of and tools for designing high impact online courses tha...

Assuring quality.

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 ...

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 ...

New challenges in assuring vaccine quality.

In the past, quality control of vaccines depended on use of a variety of testing methods to ensure that the products were safe and potent. These methods were developed for vaccines whose safety and efficacy were based on several years worth of data. However, as vaccine production technologies have developed, so have the testing technologies. Tests are now able to detect potential hazards with a...