Handbook on quality and standardisation in e-learning

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    • Ehlers, Ulf-Daniel
    • Pawlowski, Jan Martin

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Handbook on quality and standardisation in e-learning

Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Jan Martin Pawlowski, [editors]

Springer, c2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [513]-552) and index

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Description

For building a knowledge society, it is critically important to thoroughly understand quality and standards in e-learning. The handbook provides a cross-national perspective on these issues and draws a clear picture of the situation in quality development and standardization. It gives a concise overview on the field of quality research which can be used for teaching purposes and contains examples of quality and standards and practice.

Table of Contents

Quality in European e-learning: An introduction.- Quality in European e-learning: An introduction.- Quality in a Europe of diverse systems and shared goals.- Quality in a Europe of diverse systems and shared goals.- European quality development: Methods and approaches.- Quality of e-learning: Negotiating a strategy, implementing a policy.- The maze of accreditation in European higher education.- Adopting quality standards for education and e-learning.- Process-oriented quality management.- An analysis of international quality management approaches in e-learning: Different paths, similar pursuits.- The quality mark e-learning: Developing process- and product-oriented quality.- Competency-based quality securing of e-learning (CQ-E).- Quality of e-learning products.- Quality evaluation for e-learning in Europe.- Towards a model for structuring diversity: Classifying & finding quality approaches with the EQO model.- E-learning standards.- The standards jungle: Which standard for which purpose?.- Architectures and frameworks.- Content and management standards: LOM, SCORM and Content Packaging.- Educational interoperability standards: IMS learning design and DIN didactical object model.- Developing and handling learner profiles for European learner information systems.- Improving European employability with the e-portfolio.- Interface standards: Integration of learning and business information systems.- Facilitating learning objects reusability in different accessibility settings.- Out of the past and into the future: Standards for technology enhanced learning.- Fields of practice and case studies.- Organisational and cultural similarities and differences in implementing quality in e-learning in Europe's higher education.- Rethinking quality for building a learning society.- Myths and realities in learner oriented e-learning-quality.- The e-learning path model: A specific quality approach to satisfy the needs of customers in e-learning.- Pedagogic quality - supporting the next UK generation of e-learning.- Quality in cross national business models for technology based educational services.- E-learning quality and standards from a business perspective.- A framework for quality of learning resources.- LearnRank: Towards a real quality measure for learning.- Quality of e-learning in tertiary education: Managing a balance between divergence and convergence.- Best practices for e-learning.

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