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QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN DISTANCE EDUCATION - Coggle Diagram
QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN DISTANCE EDUCATION
Ideological, organizational, administrative and human aspects in educational centers
There are three main ideologies present in the educational field, which are closely linked to the way of understanding the progress of the Society and the well-being of citizens: the liberal, the pluralist and the egalitarian.
Success Centers
The achievement of excellence in educational organizations makes it necessary to have people who exercise leadership capable of unifying, harmonizing, coordinating and planning the actions of their staff at the service of an educational project.
Quality indicators concept
They are a specific set of aspects related to the personal and social development of students, and which are complementary to those considered in the Learning Standards.
Educational leadership "beyond a simple administrator
It is essential to share the vision towards which the center is heading with the educational community, to focus on specific objectives and to give meaning to the functions and activities of each member of the management team.
Types and approaches of Educational Quality
Design Quality
The mission of a distance learning system is what defines its role within the context of national policy. This mission may be directed at certain objectives, target groups, regions, sectors or levels of education, and may be motivated by certain values and philosophies of learning and education.
Compliance Quality
The evaluation of the achievement of the learning objectives highlights the importance of quality as a product.
When carrying out an evaluation of this type, we are evaluating the final product; that is, how (or with what quality) the graduate of an educational institution is leaving. Thus, we can define learning assessment as the process by which the degree to which students have achieved certain learning objectives is determined.
Availability Quality
Quality experts say that "quality things are made by quality people."
This idea serves to underline the importance of having a culture of quality within educational institutions.
Quality of service
The quality of an educational service is closely linked to the satisfaction of students as the main users of the programs offered by an institution. There are many ways to assess the degree of student satisfaction with the service received.
Quality: value judgment on the educational reality
The quality of education is one of the most used expressions in the educational field. Above all, when you want to justify any process of evaluation or change. The concept of quality has several approaches, depending on the theoretical framework from which it is analyzed, but quality in education frequently implies a search for constant improvement, technical competence, excellence in action and is related to the fulfillment of educational purposes..
Quality as a value assigned to a process or educational value
Quality is a value judgment on the educational reality, it is a value assigned to an educational process or product in comparative terms. The observed reality is compared with a desirable term, which must be defined and becomes a standard or quality criterion..
Quality as a value inherent to the being of the thing (it is not an entity that adjectives and qualifies the object.)
Quality is a value inherent to the being of the thing, this means that it is not an entity that adjectives and qualifies the object. The definitions of quality of education somehow intertwine cultural, political and ideological criteria.
Quality and its Association with other Categories
System quality and efficiency
Educational quality consists in helping all students to improve in their integral dimension (moral, ethical, religious, academic, intellectual, physical, etc...), far from any reductionism.
Quality and educational management
It is closely related to the conditions and learning processes that occur in the classroom..
Quality and administrative management
It is related to the processes of educational decentralization at a political, pedagogical and financial level.
Quality Dimensions
They review the school and curricular structure, considering the new demands of the development model with a projective vision of continuity and integration of the educational system.
We consider this dimension fundamental, since it is the one that materializes the ultimate goal of any higher education institution.
Evaluates the student's formative activity in the teaching and learning processes.
Availability of minimum resources to obtain a teaching with satisfactory achievements to achieve quality and equity
Institutional and administrative management, which makes it possible to measure effectiveness, as well as the coherence between the mission and vision of the institution and the objectives set for continuous improvement.
Education as a public service and not as a private matter
Education as a public service constitutes the foundation of the effective exercise of the right to education. The educational system must be an instance open to all, attentive to the needs of society, organized and controlled by the state.
Alterable and Non-Alterable Explanatory Factors of the Quality of Education
alterable factors
any element that determines a characteristic that can influence one or more variables of the educational organization
unchangeable factors
Any element that determines a characteristic that will always be the same, and that is not influenced by another characteristic
The alterable and non-alterable explanatory factors and their problems susceptible to investigation and their incidence in the results in the measurement of the Educational Center
It constitutes problems that can be investigated to the extent that its incidence in the meager results of the measurement of a certain school is suspected. It can also constitute a set of factors that can be used as elements of a different model in the quality of education.
Teaching Quality in Virtual Environments
The parameterization of quality in virtual training activity
A rigorous procedure must be established for the selection of its teachers for both semi-virtual and fully virtual modalities.
Criteria regarding the training offer
The distance training offer is aimed at professional training for people who wish to improve their professional qualifications or prepare for the exercise of other professions and whose social, work or family circumstances prevent or make it difficult for them to take face-to-face training courses. .
Material criteria
The materials developed for the course must be known by the teacher before it starts.
The creation of materials or the development of the guide texts or resources of the course, it is advisable that they be left to the content experts, who should have a very different role in the training process..