Modeling E-learning quality assurance benchmarking in higher education

Online education programs have been growing rapidly. While it is somehow difficult to specifically quantify quality, many recommendations have been suggested to specify and demonstrate quality of online education touching on common areas of program enhancement and administration. To design a model for quality system of e-learning we need to identify the measurable indicators that are required to form a model. Therefore, in this study we review the literature and make comparisons between existing recommendations and practices to assist institutions that offer online education. The outcome of this study is to identify the indicators for online programs quality differ between institutions. In this way, we hope to help the assessment and development a model for the overall quality of online education programs. The result of the comparative study indicates that the Quality Scorecarded model possesses most of the relevant features for enabling decisions geared towards online education quality improvement