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Tuesday, September 02, 2003
The Standards Approach: Planning for Excellence in Distance Education - Linda Bruce, Syllabus
Many groups have generated standards for distance education. Despite the many formats and expressions of these efforts, taken together they offer a “form for quality” and a foundation for building the next generation of distance education spaces. New technologies are offering many alternatives for those teaching in the distance education environment. What can instructors and those charged with distance learning programs do to ensure that they are giving students the best educational experience? Standards can help. Promoting quality in distance education is a goal that many faculty, administrators, students, and industry executives pursue. But quality is difficult to achieve, especially with technology advancing rapidly, the numbers of courses growing exponentially, and with costs nearly always in question. In the face of these complexities, how can higher education technologists ensure quality at all levels for everyone involved? How can they best guide growth toward these sought-after outcomes?
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