An Investigation About Quality Standarts for Online Education

Abstract

Recently, the number of online education foundations is increasing. Also, the number of students is inevitably increasing in online education foundations. For that reason, the issue of quality assurance occurred in Turkey as in other contries. Experience and infrastructure are very important components of online education. Therefore, experts have to think the increment of online education foundations in terms of experience and infrastructure. The questions must be answered by experts of online education if we need quantities, qualities, or quantities and qualities both together. Academic evaluation, quality control and accreditation are some of the main topics in online education on the agenda of higher education in the world. Research on online education shows us that online education is as powerful as face to face education if infrastructure of online education is prepared functionally. Quality standards have to be determined by comprehensive research in order to constitute functional infrastructure. But, there is some uncertainty about the quality for online education in reality. According to literature scan, there were no quality standards for online education in Turkey. Also, there is no obvious information about whether quality standards developed by other countries have been used for online education in Turkey. For that reason, quality standards must be determined for online education to guide how to constitute functional infrastructure at online education foundations. This study aims at providing opportunity pointed below for online education; to examine where quality standards developed in the world, to constitute public opinion about quality standards, to reason for determining quality standards compatible with our own educational culture.