Quality Management in Distance Education
The center as a quality reference.
Types and approaches of Educational Quality
Quality: value judgment on educational reality
Quality and its Association with other Categories
Quality Dimensions
Alterable and Non-Alterable Explanatory Factors of the Quality of Education
Teaching Quality in Virtual Environments
The quality
School Climate effort of social psychology to understand the behavior of people in the context of organizations, applying elements of the General Theory of Systems
microclimates
School social climate is made up of different microclimates, which can be protective or hindering organizational development, in parallel with the prevailing general climate.
Classroom climate: conducive to personal development, one in which students perceive support and solidarity from their peers and teachers, they feel respected in their differences and shortcomings, as well as identified with the course and their school.
Work environment: human and physical environment in which the daily work of teachers and other school workers takes place. It is related to the way of working and of relating between teachers, with the institution and with the authorities.
High expectations
It is the set of decisions that are made from the state, to promote or sometimes work on the exercise of this right
school policy
It is the set of principles, objectives and ends that guide educational action in the state or supranational spheres and, to a certain extent, also in that of private institutions.
School Leadership
it is one of the key factors for the development of a quality education.
Design quality
It is the degree to which a product or service is reflected in its design.
Compliance quality
It is the degree of fidelity with which a product or service is reproduced with respect to its design, it is also the extent to which a product corresponds to the designed specifications, and agrees with the requirements of the project.
it is an inherent property of anything that allows it to be valued with respect to any other of the same species
Quality is a value assigned to a process educational value
it is an inherent value to the being of the thing, this means that it is not an entity that adjectives and qualifies the object.
Quality of education
Professional role of the teacher in the fulfillment of his functions in society, as well as the necessary and sufficient characteristics that typify it
quality in expanding coverage
It is the improvement and innovation of some partial aspects of content, teacher training and resources of the educational process, but without a conception of change that would consider the set of other structural, financing and planning components
Quality and efficiency of the system
it is related to the dimensions of technical and professional training that it develops.
quality and pedagogical management
It is ascribed to a pedagogical analysis of the school system, taking two central categories: teacher / student and educational process.
quality and administrative management
processes of transfer of attributions from the center to smaller geographic units that have different analysis approaches.
targeting of situations
the most significant problem nuclei for the development of education, as an organizing element of educational policies and strategies (in this order of things, some countries have defined basic or primary education as the central axis for the development of this right, others to education general)
Review of the school and curricular structure
It is about the expansion of general education, structural and curricular reform), considering the new demands of the development and growth model adopted by each country, assuming the heterogeneity of the same structure and of the population, but with a vision continuity and integration of the school system
disposition of resources
for an education that obtains at least satisfactory results (the central organisms of the State propose certain objectives of quality and equity, for which both internal and credit resources are obtained)
institutional reorganization
It allows sustaining decentralization without losing the necessary integration in orientation, in the minimum expected results and in the common conditions for educational development.
Changeable factors
Determination of alterable factors
Unchanging factors.
Determination of unalterable factors.
The non-alterable and alterable explanatory factors and their problems that can be investigated and their impact on the results in the measurement of the Educational Center.
The establishment of corrective or control policies
Teaching action in virtual environments
A new model for evaluating teaching quality in virtual environments
The parameterization of quality in virtual training activity
Quality criteria in virtual universities
Criteria regarding the training offer
Criteria regarding organization and technology
Criteria for materials
Criteria regarding teaching
Criteria regarding the creation of knowledge