Authors 

This draft has been prepared by the project team:

Dr Michael Robertshaw (co-ordinator)

The Open University of Hong Kong

Email: mrobert@ouhk.edu.hk

Professor Asha S Kanwar

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Email: ashakanwar@hotmail.com

Professor Somchin Suntavaruk

Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University

Email: ecasssom@samsorn.stou.ac.th

with generous assistance from

Professor Tat-Meng Wong

Secretary General (AAOU)

Email: tmwong@ouhk.edu.hk

Ms Andrea Hope

Education Specialist, Higher Education (COL)

Email: ahope@col.org

The team has made extensive use of the document “Chapter Three: A Quality Standards Framework for South African Distance Education Provision” for which thanks is offered to Vis Naidu of COL for bringing it to our attention.

The authors would also like to express our appreciation of the support from

The Commonwealth of Learning

URL: http://www.col.org

for sponsoring and organising the workshop at which the main work for this draft was completed.

The project was initiated by

The Asian Association of Open Universities

http://aaou.net/