Abstract
Education in general, and specifically higher education, plays an important role in the development process of all nations. Institutions of higher education have an important responsibility to support knowledge-driven economic growth strategies. This paper investigates the strategies of how by applying technologies on a large scale - with close attention to quality - virtual education can help higher education to find a way through the crisis of access, prohibitive cost, and lack of flexibility that we find all over the developing world. By addressing various issues related to planning, implementation, and quality with proper strategies, virtual education can provide immense opportunity to reduce the North-South knowledge gap and also to promote the development of the developing world. This paper reviews various issues related to promotion and quality control in virtual higher education and addresses possible strategies with general considerations of Africa and Asia.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 565-576 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | African and Asian Studies |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2003 Dec 1 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Development
- History
- Sociology and Political Science
