Research on Quality Assurance of Distance Education in China: Historical Evolution, System Construction, and Future Prospects

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10.2991/978-94-6463-568-3_26How to use a DOI?

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Distance education; Educational quality; System construction

Abstract

Distance education provides learners with a flexible, efficient, and high-quality lifelong learning pathway by optimizing resource allocation and enhancing interactivity, effectively promoting knowledge dissemination and skill improvement. Currently, distance education has encountered problems such as “inconsistent standards”, “single evaluation system”, and “imperfect organizational structure”, which hinder the development of educational quality. This study summarizes the historical evolution of the quality of distance education into four stages: budding exploration, rapid development, stable development, and deepening development. The article divides the quality assurance system of distance education in China into five major systems: policy, organization, personnel, teaching services, and evaluation and assessment. And clarify the roles and interrelationships of each system in ensuring the quality of education. Finally, the study proposes three suggestions aimed at providing reference for quality assurance in distance education, including emphasizing the importance of unified quality assurance standards, promoting a diversified quality evaluation system, and improving the organizational structure of quality assurance in the future development of distance education.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jinglian Tang
AU  - Zhuming Nie
AU  - Di Zhang
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/11/27
TI  - Research on Quality Assurance of Distance Education in China: Historical Evolution, System Construction, and Future Prospects
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 5th International Conference on Modern Education and Information Management (ICMEIM 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 191
EP  - 206
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-568-3_26
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-568-3_26
ID  - Tang2024
ER  -