Atkinson, R., McBeath, C. and Meacham, D. (eds) (1991). Quality in distance education: ASPESA Forum 91. Bathurst, NSW: Australian and South Pacific External Studies Association. ISBN 0 646 08857 2.Papers presented at the Tenth Biennial Forum of the Australian and South Pacific External Studies Association, held at Charles Sturt University Mitchell Campus, Bathurst, NSW, Australia, on 15-19 July 1991
| David Meacham | Preface: Quality in distance education | v-vii |
| Richard Johnson | ASPESA Biennial Oration: Where do we go from here? | 1-10 |
| Roger Atkinson and Angela Castro | The ADEnet Project: Improving computer communications for distance education students | 11-19 |
| Roger Atkinson, Colin Latchem and Graeme Davy | Live-Net and beyond: A universities and TAFE video conferencing consortium in WA | 20-31 |
| David Back and Shannon Timmers | Quality, costs and volume: What can we learn from the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong? | 32-43 |
| Robyn Benson, Marion Collis, Michael Parer and Marianne Robinson | Achieving quality in distance education | 44-52 |
| Patricia Bodycoat | Development of a mobile curriculum to maintain standards of care and meet the needs of a far flung domiciliary client population | 53-62 |
| Sakorn Boondao and Glenn Rowley | Does the use of assignments in distance education courses improve their quality? | 63-71 |
| John Bottomley | But are they real degrees? Quality assurance in laddered degree completion programs | 72-79 |
| Donald Bowser and Doug Shepherd | Student perceptions of the role of technology in enhancing the quality of management education at a distance | 80-89 |
| Patrick Bradbery | The process is the content | 90-101 |
| Jocelyn Calvert, Terry Evans and Bruce King | Course development through inter-institutional collaboration: The Australian Master of Distance Education | 102-110 |
| Susan Cauchi, John Clift and Keith Harris | Quality in instructional materials: Course evaluation at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand | 111-115 |
| Susan Clilverd | Quality and industrial imperatives | 116-124 |
| Terry De Lacy and Jim Birckhead | An external Aboriginal Ranger education program | 125-131 |
| John Dekkers | The development and maintenance of quality instructional materials for distance education: A viewpoint | 132-143 |
| Allan Doring and Bill Foster | Quality of life as a specialist provider | 144-148 |
| Steve Elliot | Starting with a clean sheet: Establishing quality assurance and quality control for professional computing courses in a new institution | 149-162 |
| John Fenwick | A question of quality: Aspects of quality in distance learning | 163-172 |
| Paul Finnane | Standards in distance education delivery | 173-179 |
| Robert Fox | The role of TV in the Open Learning Project | 180-182 |
| Mary Grant | A community based approach to distance Aboriginal education in NSW | 183-192 |
| Clare Harris and Maureen Hague | Meeting at a distance: How video conference tutorials enhance teacher learner relationships | 193-198 |
| John G Hedberg and Barry Harper | Providing quality when the distance is halfway around the world | 199-207 |
| Phill Higgins and Wayne Kirstine | Provision of experimental work in science to distance education students | 208-210 |
| Stuart Hosking | External study opportunities for print handicapped students: What constitutes quality? | 211-215 |
| Walter J Howse | AARNet: The discoveries of a beginner | 216-221 |
| Alistair Inglis | The cost of quality | 222-232 |
| Noel Jackling | Designing and discarding pages! A tour through the development of graphics and page design for a study guide. | 233-249 |
| Viktor Jakupec | Esoteric and exoteric concepts of quality in distance education | 250-263 |
| Gordon Joughin | Quality in distance learning: A critical review of the role of self directed learning | 264-272 |
| Neale Kemp, Fons Nouwens and Steve Towers | Materials development workshops: An integral component in the design and preparation of quality distance education materials | 273-286 |
| Jenny Kinny | From bridging program to accredited unit: Tracing the development of a self instructional learning skills program | 287-291 |
| Jenny Kinny and Bob Ross | Interactive self instructional packages as a tool for academic staff development | 292-296 |
| Christine Leys | Meeting whose needs? Quality issues in Aboriginal education programs in Central West New South Wales. | 297-301 |
| Judy Little | A maternal and child health program assuring quality of performance by Aboriginal health workers in the Kimberley Region of WA | 302-306 |
| Robert Lyall | "But is the pen mightier than the electron?" Using interactive technologies in teaching chemistry at a distance | 307-311 |
| Mary Jane Mahony and Christopher K Morgan | A sense of belonging: The unacknowledged dimension of quality in distance education | 312-315 |
| Claire Matthewson | Quality in the developing world: A view of the University of the South Pacific | 316-323 |
| Andrea McIlroy | Enhancing the quality of management learning and teaching in the distance mode | 324-329 |
| Rod McMillan | Quality with video: Not just a pretty face | 330-333 |
| Sue McNamara | Pioneers, pilots and parachutes: Human resources development for open learning | 334-343 |
| Ron Mills | An ATO view of quality in distance education | 344-349 |
| Ian Mitchell | Quality control and the Sale of Goods Act: Students' rights as buyers | 350-357 |
| Gavin Moodie | The TV open learning project - differing notions of quality in a new distance education program | 358-366 |
| Christopher K Morgan Mary Jane Mahony | Achieving quality in distance education programs depends on cooperative planning | 367-370 |
| Fons Nouwens and Peter Robinson | A model for quality materials development evaluation | 371-386 |
| Ted Nunan | University academics' perceptions of quality in distance education | 387-395 |
| Ted Nunan and Jocelyn Calvert | Investigating quality and standards in distance education: An interpretation of issues | 396-406 |
| Michael S Parer (Chair) | The course developer: Notes for a panel discussion | 407-411 |
| Helen Parker | TAFE Distance Education in Queensland: An institutional view of context driven quality | 412-417 |
| Tom Prebble | Quality assurance under conditions of devolved responsibility: A New Zealand case | 418-423 |
| C. N. Reid and M. Robertshaw | The quest for quality, east and west | 424-435 |
| Dagmar Schmidmaier | Quality as part of the management game plan | 436-438 |
| Bruce Scriven | Perceptions of quality in distance education | 439-449 |
| Doug Shepherd | Telephone conferencing: A quality factor in the delivery of public management courses | 450-460 |
| Peter J. Smith and Brian L. Scorgie | The video production console: Quality production by a single operator | 461-464 |
| Diane J. Thompson | Audio teleconferencing: A quality compromise or a compromise of quality | 465-472 |
| Lin Thompson | Designing and implementing an effective computer based tutorial system as a means of improving quality of distance education | 473-481 |
| Shannon Timmers, Maree Bentley, Ceri Davies and Peter Yen | Developing distance education business courses for Hong Kong students: A search for quality. | 482-492 |
| Susanne Warn | Course evaluation: Creating excellence with students | 493-504 |
| Lesley M. Wilkes and Elaine Lee | Lecturer contact in offshore education: Implications for quality | 505-511 |
| Patricia Youngblood, Mary Jane Mahony and Stan Tonkins | Issues in the implementation of a transcampus video conferencing network | 512-518 |
| Participants | 519-522 |
The program organiser for ASPESA Forum 91 was Mary Jane Mahony, of University of New England Orange Agricultural College. Her work is gratefully acknowledged. We thank the External Studies Unit of Murdoch University for providing Clare McBeath and Roger Atkinson with the production facilities, which included Omnipage, Applescan, Word and MacDraw running on Apple hardware, including ethernet networked Macintosh IIci, Quadra 700 and LC workstations.
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