Breaking Boundaries: Quality E-Learning for the Global Knowledge Society

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  • Lalilta Rajasingham Victoria University , Wellington, NEW ZEALAND

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v4i1.664

Keywords:

Globalisaation, JITAITS, Sloan-C the Five Pillars, Teaching/Learning, Virtual Universities

Abstract


The ideas and issues raised in this paper reflect a global challenge to understand the nature of E-learning in a knowledge society so that appropriate quality frameworks can be developed for new educational environments. E-learning and virtual classes evolved from distance education and struggle to gain recognition in mainstream education as legitimate quality higher education providers. The increasing use of information technology advances, particularly the internet present new educational paradigms and models that challenge conventional assumptions and indicators of quality assurance. What is needed is the development of global standards and quality assurance frameworks that can improve pedagogy in diverse cultural, knowledge and delivery paradigms. This paper seeks to explore how quality is defined, who sets whose standards, who will teach what to whom with what effect in a world of competing paradigms and parallel worlds of reality and virtual reality.

Author Biography

Lalilta Rajasingham, Victoria University , Wellington, NEW ZEALAND

Associate Professor, Communications Studies School of Information Management Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

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Published

2008-12-13

How to Cite

Rajasingham, L. (2008). Breaking Boundaries: Quality E-Learning for the Global Knowledge Society. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 4(1), pp. 58–65. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v4i1.664

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