Distance Education Scenario in ASEAN Countries. "Malaysian Experience"*

Quality assurance in distance learning is one of the important targets IDEAL in Malaysia dreams to achieve. Besides developing its own unique modus-operandi of flexi-learning this Institute evaluates its working system off and on, in order to assess what quality and quantity of education it gives to its distant learners and what are the intrinsic factors that affect this learning process both negatively as well as positively. Present paper is an attempt to give a brief overview of distance education in Asean countries with special reference to Institute for Distance Education and Learning (IDEAL), the distance educational outreach of University Putra Malaysia (UPM).