Distance Education Standards for
Quality Assurance

World Tour of Practices & Issues

“…The World Wide Web will be a transformative medium, as important as electricity.

…its user can be at once a receiver and a sender of ‘broadcast’ --- a confusing property, but mind-stretching!”

Net or ‘N’ Generation:

Distance Learning Trends in the U.S.
 U.S. Dept of Ed 1998 survey released Dec.’99

Institutions Reorganizing

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Institutional Reorganizations

Taxonomy of Consortia & VU’s

What are the quality assurance issues in this new environment?

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That was 6 -7 years ago…

Quality assurance community is now debating what constitutes an institution.

Consistent Assessment Protocols

Council of Regional Accrediting Commission’s Guidelines for Distributed Learning

Student Support

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Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications

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