Meeting of Consultants in Distance Learning

The meeting of the individual consultants selected in the frames of 'Online Master's Degree with Awarding Joint Diplomas' was held on 27 July to discuss the progress of the project and the launch of the consultation works. Project Manager Tereza Khechoyan, Vice Rector in Foreign Affairs at RA Public Administration Academy and Project Coordinator Arusyak Harutyunyan, Head of Foreign Affairs Department at ISEC NAS RA, welcomed the individual consultants and attached much importance to the regulations to be developed by them, as it will secure the normative documentation needed for the implementation of a distance learning and will enable applying to RA Education and Science Ministry to get a license for an educational program in distance format. During the project the individual consultants will particularly develop the following regulations –methodological guidelines on distance education, guidelines on organizing distance educational process, intra-university QA standards, regulation on awarding joint diplomas and other procedures, which can serve as samples for other HEIs to initiate distance learning. During the project Moodle LMS will also be translated into Armenian.