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WSKS 2009: Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All pp 146–153Cite as

Quality Development in Education

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The article suggests that people involved in quality development need a specific competence, called quality literacy, in order to successfully improve learning processes. Quality literacy is viewed as a set of competencies that are needed for professional quality development. Quality literacy emphasizes the importance of professionalism as a necessary component for quality development, in addition to structural quality management models. Quality development is a co-production between learners and their learning environment. This means that the educational process can only be influenced and optimized through participation and not steered externally. Quality strategies cannot, therefore, guarantee a high quality of learning processes but rather aim at professionalisation of the educational process. This article suggests participation and negotiation between educational participants (clients and providers) as a main condition for quality development.

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  1. Department of Electronics Engineering Educators, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education ASPETE, Athens, Greece

    Spiros Panetsos, Anastasios Zogopoulos & Odysseas Tigas

  2. Elabuga State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation,  

    Albina Gubaidullina

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  2. Anastasios Zogopoulos
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Open Research Society, Gerakas Attikis, NGO, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. University of Ovieto, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez de Pablos

  3. Department of Information Technology, University of Milan, via Bramante, 65 - 26013, Crema (CR), Italy

    Ernesto Damiani

  4. ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

    David Avison

  5. KMR group at NADA/KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Lindstedtsv. 5, P.O. Box, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ambjörn Naeve

  6. The American College of Greece, Greece

    David G. Horner

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Panetsos, S., Zogopoulos, A., Tigas, O., Gubaidullina, A. (2009). Quality Development in Education. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez de Pablos, P., Damiani, E., Avison, D., Naeve, A., Horner, D.G. (eds) Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All. WSKS 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 49. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04757-2_16

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