Quality Assurance and Innovative Education: A Provocative Vision for the Future and Challenges

QUALITY ASSURANCE AND INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONA PROVOCATIVE VISION FOR THE FUTURE AND CHALLENGE

ANTHONY F. CAMILLERI – KNOWLEDGE INNOVATION CENTREET2020 WG ON DIGITAL AND ONLINE LEARNING – EDUCATION E-MATERIAL – QUALITY ASSURANCE16TH SEPTEMBER 2015, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA

CONNECTING FROM SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITYKRASNOYARSK, RUSSIA

TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS

Ubiquitous Computingaccess to computing

power any time anywhere

Open Dataaccess to any

information any time anywhere

Learning Analyticsability to base teaching

decisions on data

Semantic Searchability to talk and

converse with machines

Collaboration Technologiesability to collaborate with

anybody in real-time

Personalisation Technologies

move away from traditional massification concepts

SOCIAL CHANGES MEAN INCREASED DEMANDS FROM EDUCATION

provide graduates to supply the knowledge economy

increase efficiency of processes

extend reach of programmesadapt content to ever-changing

priorities

do more, better, with less

SELECTED TRENDS IN ONLINE, OPEN AND FLEXIBLE HIGHER EDUCATION

Growing Role of

OER

Emergence of Non-

Traditional Providers

Mushrooming of Diploma

Mills

Increasing demand for

recognition & portability

Open Data

GROWTH IN OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

April 2014:

3045 learning repositories – 7% growth year-on-year

with 12 million learning objects

Source:repository66.org

March 2015:

1139 European MOOCs

220% Year-on-Year Growth

Source:openeducationeuropa.eu

POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIO 1

Teaching Performance will be calculated based on reuse of their teaching materials

Teacher Pay will be determined by‘fame’ of their products.

POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIO I1

Teaching Performance will include an ‘efficiency’ component:

How much material did you reuse and not have to create?

EMERGENCE OF NON-TRADITIONAL PROVIDERS

‘Hybrid Providers’mergers of HEIs and

Technology companies collaborating on course provision, e.g. Coursera

Teaching & Examination

Centresteach HE level

qualifications using licensed content from

universities

RPL Universitiesinstitutions offering

recognition, credentialisation and

add-on teaching for RPL

Exam-Only Companies

designing and/or providing examinations

(incl. automated assessment)

Publishersproviding not only books

but online learning communities

POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIOS

QA Agencies will become sprawling education regulators

QA Agencies will become increasingly irrelevant

MILLS ARE ON THE RISE

JournalsConferencesCoursesInstitutionsCampusesAccreditation

FAKEthe lowest level of Qualityis institutionalised fraud

POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIO

Quality Assurance will become a branch of law enforcement

INCREASED DEMAND FOR RECOGNITION

BadgesCertificates of

attendanceCertificates of

completionECTSDiplomas and Degrees

easily mapped toQualifications Framework

Hard/Impossible to map toQualifications Framework

FUTURE SCENARIO

Students Expect HE

to provide portable

and recognisable

qualifications

Quality Assurance ofQualifications will

become widespread(recognition & portability as elements

of quality)

Marketing of Qualifications will become linked to Consumer Law

OPEN DATA & QUALITYTECHNOLOGY GIVES RISE TO NEW EXPECTATIONS FROM THE QUALITY ECOSYSTEM

Assure Minimal Quality

Standards

Offer Various Ranking

Methodologies

Allow for User Review and Rating

Give Access to Data

POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIO

Internal Quality Assurance will become focused on metrics

External Quality Assurance will becomeabout verifying metrics

THANK YOU FORYOUR ATTENTION

ANTHONY F. CAMILLERIANTHONY@KNOWLEDGEINNOVATIONEU

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