Emerging Trends & Implications for Quality Assurance
8/29/00
Author: SJohnstone
Table of Contents
Emerging Trends & Implications for Quality Assurance
What is actually going on at U.S. higher education institutions?
Distance Learning Trends in the U.S. U.S. Dept of Ed 1998 survey released Dec.’99
What are the quality assurance issues in this new environment?
Regional accrediting community is now debating what constitutes an institution.
Accrediting community also looking for more specifics
Council of Regional Accrediting Commission’s Guidelines for Distributed Learning
Who takes Responsibility for Quality Control?
Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications