[art] What Do you Need for Quality in e-Learning?.Ehlers Ulf-Daniel

The quality development can be seen as a negotiation process and can be described as a cycle of four steps.

Quality Development as a Negotiation Process

Quality development in education has always been a field of great debates. It challenges believes and existing values of professionals. The nature of quality development is a constant adaptation process of the offered educational services to the target groups which are to be educated. Newer approaches highlight the aspect of negotiation as one very important for successful quality development (Ehlers/ Fehrenbach 2004).

This relates especially to the open nature of quality which in itself is not a normative definition but a relation between the perceived and the offered provision. Within this open concept of quality development, we can identify four steps (adapted from the Quality Decision Cycle of the European Quality Observatory, see Ehlers/ Pawlowski 2004) which have to be taken to develop quality in education in general, and e-learning in particular. To perform these steps of quality development, several competencies are necessary which we want to refer to as quality literacy. They involve: (leer más…)

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