Quality Assessment for E-learning: a Benchmarking Approach (Third edition)

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of benchmarks, quality criteria and notes for guidance against which e-learning programs and their support systems may be judged, which can be used by course developers, teachers and other stakeholders.

Abstract: The primary purpose of this manual is to provide a set of benchmarks, quality criteria and notes for guidance against which e-learning programmes and their support systems may be judged. The manual should therefore be seen primarily as a reference tool for the assessment or review of e-learning programmes and the systems which support them. However, the manual should also prove to be useful to staff in institutions concerned with the design, development, teaching, assessment and support of e-learning programmes. It is hoped that course developers, teachers and other stakeholders will see the manual as a useful development and/or improvement tool for incorporation in their own institutional systems of monitoring, evaluation and enhancement.