CONTINUING DISTANCE EDUCATION: MODELS, ENVIRONMENTS, DEVELOPMENT AND SPECIFICATIONS
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https://doi.org/10.5944/ried.7.1-2.1079Keywords:
quality in e-learning, online development, elearning models., standards and specificationsAbstract
A definition of distance education is presented (one more), to focus later to online education. It is necessary an educational model as a theoretical basis of the elements which act to consolidate the fulfillment of an online course and also as a support the teaching-learning process; in order to achieve this double goal, a constructivist approach that ends at the instructional design is chosen. Afterwards an online course is presented using this model. E-learning systems and their interoperability are described, stressing that that the utmost emphasis has occurred in the criteria generation that allows the export of systems between them, Learning Managements Systems (LMS’s) and Learning Content Management Systems (LCM's) are described. A summary of international standards and specifications about e-learning are presented, emphasizing that the relative quality criteria are still diversified and seldom applied. Since standards and specifications at present do not consider the specific area of Continuing Education -and less the still the online education offered to engineers- it is suggested to take a decided action in this field, in order to promote the development of the same ones.
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