@techreport {
	title = {Quality assurance toolkit for open schools},
	year = {2010},
	month = {10/2010},
	author = {Ferreira, Frances and Walker, Carol and Mhlanga, Ephraim and Biswas, Gopa and Vilakati, Nokuthula and Ziyane, Nozipho Dulcie and Bila, Messias and Matusse, Uile and Kionywaki, Baraka and Ntiluhoka, Genoveva and Kimathy, Mary L. and Amey, Fancy Lorraine and Bothasitse, Mabel K. and Kgamanyane, Dikeme and Balate, Rogério Eugénio and Matavela, Lurdes Patrocínia Matavela and Afonso, Amadeu and Efraim-Guiob, Harold and Nitschke, Jan and Keendjele, Francine Ndeutungu and Mannan, Abdul and Mweetwa, Rhoda},
	keywords = {toolkit, quality assurance, open schooling, distance learning, case study, accreditation},
	country = {South Africa},
	address = {Vancouver},
	language = {eng},
	publisher = {Commonwealth of Learning},
	pages = {1-217},
	isbn = {9781894975407},
	abstract = {Open schooling is becoming increasingly prevalent in many developing countries. Enrolment numbers are rising rapidly, particularly at the secondary school level. But quality assurance remains limited.

Open schooling must mean access to quality education, otherwise its introduction becomes counterproductive. In our view, the quality of the education is as important as the quantity offered.

This carefully prepared toolkit is one way of providing support as open schools develop quality assurance systems that will be the foundation of a culture of continual improvement in open schooling. We hope it will benefit open schooling by making institutions’ quality assurance practices as explicit and systematised as possible, with quality assurance policies clearly communicated amongst institutional stakeholders.

While the toolkit aims at helping open schools to institute sound quality assurance systems that can lead to quality ODL provisioning, it also seeks to alert policy makers to the importance of investing in quality open schooling as more and more learners opt for this alternative form of education.},
	refereed = {does not apply},
	url = {http://hdl.handle.net/11599/107},
	attachments = {pubQAOSToolkit.pdf},
}