Quality Assurance – The Basics  

In 2007 the National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India in collaboration with COL produced the Quality assurance toolkit for teacher education institutions. There are four parts to the kit:

• Quality Assurance Toolkit for Teacher Education Institutions: Guidelines 
• Quality Assurance in Higher Education: An Introduction
• An Anthology of “Best Practices” in Teacher Education
• Quality Indicators for Teacher Education
  

In 2006, COL published a new book in Perspectives on distance education series, entitled: “Towards a quality of culture”. 

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.

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).