Abstract
The current paper was produced with the purpose of suggesting strategies for bringing quality in distance education programs at higher education level. In recent times distance education is becoming an indispensable part of education system globally. Every institution is trying to offer their educational course through general as well through distance education means in order to make market for its programs. There is need to introduce quality distance education programs. It can be done through bringing quality in the curriculum and instruction of distance education programs, providing students quality support services, training faculty members in innovative methods of instruction of distance education, provision of technical support for promotion of research culture, adopting multiple ways of assessment of distance students, developing code of ethics for distance education faculty members and students, provision of quality infrastructure and technology, launching courses of distance education only through approval of national accreditation council for distance education (NACDE) and taking measures of check at every delivery system of distance education courses through quality control agencies.
Keywords
Strategies quality distance education curriculum national accreditation council for distance education delivery modes.
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Abstract
References
- American Council on Education. (1996). Guiding principles for distance learning in a learning society. Washington, DC: ACE Central Services.
- American Association for Higher Education. (2000). Implementing the Seven Principles:
- Technology as a Lever. Washington, DC: AAHE Berge, Z. (2001). Sustaining Distance Training: Integrating Learning Technologies into the Fabric of the Enterprise. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- Eaton, J. (2000). Core Academic Values, Quality, and Regional Accreditation: The challenge of distance learning. Washington, DC: Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
- Innovations in Distance Education (1995). An Emerging Set of Guiding Principles and Practices for the Design and Development of Distance Education. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania
- State University. A Report of the Faculty Initiative Funded by a grant from The AT&T Foundation to The Pennsylvania State University in collaboration with Lincoln University and Cheyney University. Sufiana, K. M. (2010). Role of Distance education in the Expansion of Female Higher
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- Sara, D. G. (2001). How to be a Successful Online Student. New York: McGraw-Hill J. L
- Sufiana, K. M. (2011). Nature of Teacher-Students’ Interaction in Electronic Learning and Traditional Courses of Higher Education- A Review. Published in Turkish online Journal of
- Distance Education-TOJDE October 2011 ISSN 1302-6488 Volume: 12 Number: 4 Article 9
Details
| Primary Language | English |
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| Journal Section | Articles |
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| Publication Date | February 27, 2015 |
| Submission Date | February 27, 2015 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2015 Volume: 16 Issue: 1 |