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Standards and Costs for Quality Management of E-Learning Services

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  • Marian Stoica

    () (The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania)

  • Bogdan Ghilic-Micu

    () (The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania)

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    The proportions of the technological development in the field of communications and information represent an irrefutable premise for significant changes in all the spheres of human life. Corroborated with the advance of the Internet recorded in the last decade, these changes form the perfect recipe for the emergence (ever since the '90s), functioning and development of flexible forms of labour at distance, using the technology of information and communication. Among the first domains where the impact of technology is very strong may be named education, marketing, advertising and commerce; the forms of manifestation are materialized in e-learning, cyber-marketing, online advertising and electronic commerce. But the simple use of technology does not automatically assure the success of the new forms of activity. These transformations of the traditional into digital, of the classic into virtual must be accompanied by the adequate support with respect to the quality of services, standards, platforms and the hardware and software technologies. If we are referring to the educational domain, we have to analyze the e-learning phenomenon or tele-education in its spectacular evolution in such a recent history. Quality represents a landmark of major importance in all the fields of modern society based on knowledge. From the perspective of tele-education, quality assurance must be focalized on three main directions: the quality of the actual educational process (class/course support, platform, technology, etc.); the quality of the instructor (professional training, qualification, specialization, pedagogic ability, teaching method, etc.); the quality of the person undergoing the course/class (training, knowledge thesaurus, involvement, accumulation wish, etc.). Also, like in any activity, quality standard reporting means an economic approach by quality costs. Theat means that the good product or quality services in e-learning are very strongly linked with educational multimedia production and good costs.

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    Article provided by Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania in its journal The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal.

    Volume (Year): 11 (2009)
    Issue (Month): 26 (June)
    Pages: 355-363

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    Handle: RePEc:aes:amfeco:v:11:y:2009:i:26:p:355-364

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    Keywords: quality; standards; e-learning; technology; cost;

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    Cited by:
    1. Bogdan Ghilic-Micu & Marinela Mircea & Marian Stoica, 2011. "Knowledge based economy –technological perspective: implications and solutions for agility improvement and innovation achievement in higher education," The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania, vol. 13(30), pages 404-419, June.
    2. Ion Plumb & Andreea Zamfir, 2011. "A Possible Model for Developing Students’ Skills within the Knowledge-Based Economy," The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania, vol. 13(30), pages 482-496, June.

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