Quality Assurance in Open and Distance Learning: an Evolutionary Approach

Increasing access to education and consequent rapid expansion of open and distance learning as a viable alternative pause a challenge to ensuring quality to develop stakeholders’ confidence. Prescriptive off-the-self quality assurance policy is not an ideal option for the distance education institutions that are at embryonic stage of development. Given the challenges for capacity building including low level of quality culture, institutions at their early stage of development should adopt an evolutionary approach to integrate elements of quality assurance along with the development of system, process and procedures.