Annual Forum On e-Learning Excellence In The Middle East 2010

The local contextualisation of global quality relies on the human capacity to think globally but act locally, to help overcome limited scale, bounded thinking. The tension between global standards and local expectations calls for new powerful tools and conceptual instruments to enhance online learning, to measure its effectiveness, to improve the design of learning materials and to integrate the evolving role the teacher, now a facilitator rather than a person who holds the knowledge. Beyond traditional educational management, it also calls for specific accreditation, quality frameworks and policies. And last but not least, it calls for innovative pedagogies and methodologies to support just-in-time, on-the-job, lifelong learning.