ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the implications for higher education institutions and their staff and students, and suggests some strategies for ensuring the quality of this educational provision. Most institutions become involved in transnational distance education through a consortium. The chapter describes the rapid increase of transnational distance education through the growth of electronic media of instruction. With the rapid growth of transnational distance education, colleges and universities need to assume new quality assurance responsibilities. Originating institutions must stand behind the academic quality of the instruction which they sell to other institutions. Transnational distance education gives an institution the possibility to tap other nations' academic talents and offer its students advanced instruction in subject matter which might otherwise be unobtainable in the country. The academic standards of courses delivered transnationally should be comparable to counterpart courses offered at the home campus.
