Toward quality assurance and excellence in higher education / Ahmed Odeh Al Jaber, Haifaa Omar Elayyan.

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Concept of higher education, quality assurance, and e-learning -- The role of higher education (quality assurance-based system) in promoting lifelong learning -- Quality-oriented strategic planning for higher education -- Quality assurance management and control -- Quality assurance for universities -- Quality assurance piloting the e-learning sector -- Teaching-learning process and quality assurance in higher education -- Assessments in a quality assurance suit -- Quality-oriented learning resources -- Crystalize the bond between university ranking system and university quality assurance systems -- Toward excellence of higher education -- Quality assurance for higher education in Japan -- Quality assurance for higher education in Finland.

Quality Assurance is not a new concept in the education sector in general, and higher education in particular, though it is becoming increasingly more relevant and important. Higher education helps to improve an individual's quality of life by enabling them to inflate their knowledge and expertise, to grasp abstract concepts and theories, and to raise their awareness of the world and their community, and as such the assurance of quality is becoming more pivotal in the whole education process. There is no simple definition of the concept of quality in education, though numerous models and theories have been devised. Toward Quality Assurance and Excellence of Higher Education is a new episode of the Quality Assurance perception in higher education, which identifies the quality culture and orientation from the beginning, integrating crucial factors to build a "pyramid" of higher education excellence. The book compares concepts from the main theories of Quality Assurance, management and control when they are applied to educational systems in higher education. The book also presents a new model of excellence in higher education. Excellence is an architecture of building blocks that comes with process performance, effectiveness, harmony and collaboration which should be incorporated in a quality-oriented concept of a sustainable excellence of higher education. The model integrates four main facets: the Educational System, Quality Assurance Managing and Control, Strategic Planning and Globalization. Also presented are international "best-practices" in quality assurance in higher education, from Japan and Finland.

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