Quality Assurance in Elearning: Policy and Capacity Building Issues

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Quality Assurance in Elearning Policy and
Capacity Building Issues

• Zeynep Varoglu
• 12 March 2009

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Overview

• Background - Why are we talking about this?
• Definitions - What do we mean by e-Learning?
• UNESCO Activities
• Main Issues and Key Concerns

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Background - why are we talking about this?

• Increasing demand for higher education
• Decreasing budget for higher education
• Looking for innovative solutions to meet
  challenges

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Definitions what are we talking about?

• Elearning lCT assisted learning
• Links to distance education, open and distance
  learning
• Delivery a continuum from face to- face to
  completely virtual environment

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UNESCO Activities

• UNESCO/OECD Guidelines for Quality Provision of
  Cross-border Higher Education
• UNESCO Higher Education Open and Distance
  Learning Knowledge Base
• UNESCO Portal on Higher Education Institutions
• Degree Mills Project

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Looking Forward

• First meeting bringing together different QA of
  Elearning Initiatives in different regions
• Build on common challenges for common solutions
• Promote capacity building regionally,
  inter-regionally