Quality assurance in distance education: The challenges to be addressed

Higher Education

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-160

  Stella, Antony ^a,b   Gnanam, A ^a  

^a Natl Assess/Accreditation Cncl ^*

^b NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL   (India)

Author keywords

Distance education; Distributed learning; E learning; New forms of learning; On line learning; Quality assurance of challenges of

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843074317     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HIGH.0000016420.17251.5c     Document Type: Article

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