Abstract— The concept of Quality Assurance (QA) in Education have proved its importance to provide trustworthy and state of the art education system. Some guidelines for this purpose are already in place. With the new concepts of education dissemination the need of newer effective QA methodologies are evident. The present work has been undertaken to derive a framework for QA of multi-modal digital distance education in developing countries’ environment that incorporates QA processes in all identified functional areas of a multi-modal digital distance education dissemination system which is primarily based on survey feedback. The relevant educational organization may implement the framework for self-evaluation to assure quality of disseminated courses. The suggestive framework has been described along with the details about involved processes and phases.

Index Terms— Digital distance education, multi-modal digital distance education, quality assurance, quality factor, QA process, feedback based QA.

Pramatha Nath Basu is with School of Education Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata - 700032, West Bengal, India (e-mail: basupn@yahoo.co.in).
Tapan Chowdhury is with Techno India College, Salt lake, India (e-mail: tapan2004cse@yahoo.co.in).

Cite: Suchismita Biswas, Pramatha Nath Basu, and Tapan Chowdhury, " A Feedback System Based Self-Evaluation Framework for Quality Assurance of Multi-Modal Digital Distance Education," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 57-61, 2013.