Asian learners’ perception of quality in distance education and gender differences

There have been few efforts to investigate the concept of quality from learners’ perspectives or to incorporate their needs and perceptions in quality standards in distance education. This is rather surprising, particularly in distance education contexts where the quality of the learning is not deri...

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Autor principal:	Insung Jung
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2012
Materias:	distance education e-learning gender learner’s perspective quality Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:daef160114cc4b0f89e4debdd5c6898d2021-12-02T19:20:54ZAsian learners’ perception of quality in distance education and gender differences10.19173/irrodl.v13i2.11591492-3831https://doaj.org/article/daef160114cc4b0f89e4debdd5c6898d2012-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1159https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831There have been few efforts to investigate the concept of quality from learners’ perspectives or to incorporate their needs and perceptions in quality standards in distance education. This is rather surprising, particularly in distance education contexts where the quality of the learning is not derived only from the products and services delivered to the learner but also from the knowledge, understanding, and relationships that are codeveloped by both teachers and learners during the teaching and learning processes. This study proposes and verifies a conceptual model of the 10 dimensions of quality in distance education from the learners’ perspectives and investigates gender differences in the perception of quality in distance education with 1,665 distance learners from 11 Asian countries and one territory. The results show that all 10 dimensions across supportive, pedagogical, and environmental domains in the model are important in judging quality in distance education. Also, gender differences are found in the perceived importance of 10 quality dimensions, barriers to DE, important supporters, and types of support received. The implications of these findings are discussed and suggestions for further research and development are offered. Insung JungAthabasca University Pressarticledistance educatione-learninggenderlearner’s perspectivequalitySpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 13, Iss 2 (2012)
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description	There have been few efforts to investigate the concept of quality from learners’ perspectives or to incorporate their needs and perceptions in quality standards in distance education. This is rather surprising, particularly in distance education contexts where the quality of the learning is not derived only from the products and services delivered to the learner but also from the knowledge, understanding, and relationships that are codeveloped by both teachers and learners during the teaching and learning processes. This study proposes and verifies a conceptual model of the 10 dimensions of quality in distance education from the learners’ perspectives and investigates gender differences in the perception of quality in distance education with 1,665 distance learners from 11 Asian countries and one territory. The results show that all 10 dimensions across supportive, pedagogical, and environmental domains in the model are important in judging quality in distance education. Also, gender differences are found in the perceived importance of 10 quality dimensions, barriers to DE, important supporters, and types of support received. The implications of these findings are discussed and suggestions for further research and development are offered.
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Asian learners’ perception of quality in distance education and gender differences

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