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Turning Potentials into Reality: Achieving Sustainable Quality in E-Learning Through Quality Competence

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Handbook on Information Technologies for Education and Training

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Starting from the importance of quality for today’s E-Learning, in this chapter, the current debate is summarised, and a new concept of how quality can be developed in a sustainable way is presented. The concept is moving away from a mechanistic view of quality assurance to processes of quality co-development with quality-literate stakeholders and to negotiation-based permanent quality reflection in educational processes.

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Ehlers, U.D. (2008). Turning Potentials into Reality: Achieving Sustainable Quality in E-Learning Through Quality Competence. In: Adelsberger, H.H., Kinshuk, Pawlowski, J.M., Sampson, D.G. (eds) Handbook on Information Technologies for Education and Training. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74155-8_11

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