Quality Measures in E-Learning

The Economist Intelligent Unit of 2009 (http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/pdf/e-readiness_rankings_june_2009_final_web.pdf) gives the e-readiness report for various countries in the world. These indicators include:

i) Connectivity and technology infrastructure

ii) Business environment

iii) Social and cultural environment

iv) Legal environment

v) Government policy and vision

vi) Consumer and business adoption

While it gives the ability of various selected countries to produce, use and expand Internet-based resources in government, industry, education and society by means of nearly 100 separate quantitative and qualitative criteria, I find it rather exclusive especially for Africa where there are only three countries in the list, namely S. Africa, Egypt and Nigeria.

According to the internet world statistics, (http:// www.internetworldstats.com), the African continent had a growth rate of 1,392.4 % between 2000 and 2009 as compared to Oceania/ Australia which had 175.2 %. Does this imply that the growth rate is not reflective in the area of use, expansion or production in Africa?

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