Quality Assurance – The Basics

In 2005, COL produced a six-page guide to the basics of Quality Assurance in ODL in its Knowledge Series which provides a very useful starting point by identifying the specific role of quality assurance in ODL operations within an institution. It can be found at this link.

The issues in Quality Assurance raised by the new forms of Higher Education in terms of types of provider and provision, delivery mode, curricula and content, new qualifications and trans-border delivery are well summarized by Professor Robin Middlehurst in her paper for the ENQA Occasional Paper Series #3 "Quality Assurance Implications of New Forms of Higher Education" (2001)
www.enqa.net/files/newforms.pdf