Quality Management in Distance Education
Quality and its Association with other Categories
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4.1 Quality in the expansion of coverage The policy of expansion of educational coverage, at the preschool, basic and secondary levels, is aimed at increasing coverage, giving special attention to the most vulnerable population, as a mechanism to ensure greater equity in distribution of opportunities.
4.2 Quality and efficiency of the system efficiency: relationship between the result achieved and the resources used. The quality management system establishes objectives and will be effective to the extent that it meets those objectives. ... You cannot think that you have to achieve quality "at any cost".
4.3 Pedagogical quality and management Pedagogical management within the educational system should be recognized as a process that facilitates the orientation and coordination of the actions that teachers deploy at different levels to manage the educational teaching process in the efficient achievement of the objectives proposed for the training
Quality Dimensions
5.1. Focusing on problematic situations and nuclei for the development of education, as an organizer of educational policies and strategies. Educational policies are courses of action through which it is intended to promote certain programs and initiatives, in order to solve specific problems of education.
5.2 Review of the school and curricular structure, considering the new demands Most educational systems have initiated processes of reforms and transformations, as a consequence of the acute awareness of the exhaustion of a traditional model that has not been able to reconcile quantitative growth with satisfactory levels of quality and equity, and incorporate the satisfaction of new social demands as a priority and guiding criterion for the definition of policies and decision-making.
Educaction Quality
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6.1. Changeable factors. Concept Factors associated with learning, performance and school performance. ... From the internal stand out the school climate, directive leadership, the quality of the pedagogical process in the classroom, the expectations about the students, the motivation of the students and the use of school time, among others.
6.2. Determination of alterable factors In each society there are communities, groups of individuals, families or individuals who are more likely than others to suffer illnesses, accidents, premature deaths in the future ..., they are said to be especially vulnerable individuals or groups. As knowledge about the different processes increases, scientific evidence shows in each of them that: firstly, diseases do not occur randomly and secondly that very often this "vulnerability" has its reasons.
6.3. Unchanging factors. Concept.
are determined as follows:
Teacher. Years of service and positions held (teaching experience). ...
Student family. Quality of family atmosphere. ...
Environment conditions. Rurality index of the geographic area in which the school is located. ...
Policies, regulations, plans and programs. ...
School offer.
The center as a quality reference.
1.1. Ideological, organizational, administrative and human aspects in the centers
Educational The educational company is a publicly or privately owned organization whose primary objective is to provide high quality educational services to the community or to a part of it. The needs of consumers are the meaning of economic activity. Entrepreneurs form companies in order to respond to these needs.
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1.2. Success Centers
A “successful school” is, therefore, a school that achieves its educational objectives regardless of the socio-economic or socio-cultural context and the personal characteristics of the students.
1.3. Family participation and educational quality
One way of understanding family participation is as a resource for the improvement of educational processes and results. This leads us to propose new forms of participation and involvement that develop the interest of parents and create a work environment that favors educational quality.
1.4. Quality indicators concept.
Quality indicators are measurement instruments, of a tangible and quantifiable nature, that allow evaluating the quality of processes, products and services to ensure customer satisfaction.
Types and approaches of Educational Quality.
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2.1 Design Quality: desired characteristics, objectives of plans and programs.
It consists of tracing the path and generating the means to be able to "travel" from the point where the need is detected to the desired performance point. This is achieved through the selection of knowledge, paths, moments and resources that, combined in a stimulating way, facilitate the safest arrival at that performance.
Ensure that what is taught is something that is needed.
Ensure that what will be taught is learned.
Ensure that what is learned is transferred to the task.
Ensure that what was learned is sustained over time. Educational Design is preceded by the detection of needs and their analysis:
Links learning with organizational processes, culture, values and beliefs.
Predict the instructor's actions.
Imagine the ways to maximize the possibilities of applying what is learned.
It seeks to stimulate people to work in a different and better way. The information collected will allow the designer to go through 2 stages:
The preparation of a strategic proposal: indicate the recommended educational modality, HR actions, how to evaluate results, groups, moments, etc.
The preparation of an educational design: select and order content, prepare the sequence of activities, produce the instructor's guide and the materials to be used.
2.2 Quality of Conformity: the teaching-learning processes: supervision, orientation and compliance with all the objectives indicated in the plans and programs of its highest level of performance.
Quality: value judgment on educational reality 3.1 Value compromises a judgment.
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In a changing environment, characterized by globalization processes, where the management of knowledge and technology are elements of the first order to achieve development, countries that want to compete and improve their levels of social, economic and environmental development, must adapt their systems education to continuous changes and optimize their efficiency. Better education implies evaluation processes in accordance with education and changes.
3.2 Quality as a value assigned to a process or educational value.
Educational quality is reflected when knowledge is induced through strategies used by the teacher and that help facilitate the acquisition by students, with the best bases and with a methodology that highlights what they are learning within the institution, and that is also shown when needed in daily activities, likewise the attitudes that are carried out for the improvement of quality, will have to be the best by the personnel who impart the knowledge and actors involved in the process .
3.3 The observation from the concept of quality to the educational reality: a judgment with which the being of the thing compromises.
At present the human mind must be considered a very valuable capital, current societies demand quality products, quality resources, quality education, all qualified and quality-oriented with the purpose of growth and improvement. But also today's world requires individuals who are capable of being free and creative, who are capable of living and developing in a nation in which they can work comfortably.