Establishing a Distance Education Program

Abstract

The workshop on establishing a distance education programme will initially focus on a conventional software engineering module. The workshop participants will examine how their experiences of/interest in distance education can suggest a way forward in tailoring this module for a world wide delivery mechanism. The objectives of the workshop are: to determine how to turn existing courses into distance modes, to evaluate the implications of cultural issues (in establishing the programmes and in the delivery of material), to determine how to ensure the quality of courses, to determine how to ensure comparability of experience for students, and to assess the range of delivery mechanisms which have been tried and assessed.