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Quality Assurance in Asian Open and Distance Learning
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ABSTRACT
As the world’s largest continent, comprising 50 or so nations, Asia has great diver-
sity in its peoples, traditions, cultures, languages, governmental systems and legisla-
tive and regulatory environments. Its educational systems, policy frameworks and
practices are correspondingly diverse, as are its QA policies and procedures and
applications of ODL in basic, technical and vocational, higher and non-formal
education. There is some evidence, however, that globalization and technology
are bringing Asian governments and ODL providers closer in regard to adminis-
tering QA and promoting a culture of quality. This chapter examines QA policies
and practices in Asian ODL. It concludes that QA in Asia should acknowledge
the uniqueness of ODL, focus more on outcomes and pay greater attention to
quality in open schooling and NFE.
