Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

Quality Assurance of e-ContentIndian Perspective

by Sanjaya Mishra

The Context

Enabling EnvironmenteLearning ScenarioQuality Assurance MechanismsEducation and Training

Opportunities

Enabling Environment

National IT Task-Force Recommendation (1998)

National Mission on Education through ICT (2009)

eLearning Scenario

NetVarsity, 1996 IGNOU, 1999 Tamil Virtual

University, 2000 IIM, Bangalore

2002/3 NPTEL, 2007 NMEICT, 2009NO specific data available on overall eLearning scenario, including nature of courses, students enrolment, gender profile of students, access issues, etc.

R & D for Online Learning

Instructional design model for Web environment

A generic model of ID – ERIC that can be applied to online learning

IGNOU as a Capacity Builder Online programme on

eLearning Intensive with F2F

component for skill training

Covers instructional design theory and practice

Total online course development experience, with mentoring

OER-based content reviewed by experts

QA Agencies: Need for NCHER

ODL – DEC? Teacher Education –

NCTE? Engineering Education

– AICTE Medical Education –

IMC Agriculture Education

– ICAR-NAB Higher Education –

NAAC

eLearning Quality Who is responsible to monitor quality? Should quality measure be different for

different modes of learning? Can learning quality be same irrespective

of the mode? Should we prescribe presentation formats

for eLearning?

Content Vs Engagement

Content is King Content is only

part of the ID process

We can have guidelines for good content design

Engagement is Key Designing

engagement within and outside the content is important

Learning outcomes and process quality need focus

Guidelines for Content Quality

Quality as fitness for purpose and quality as continuous improvement

Follows the ADDIE process to identify criteria and descriptors to assess quality

QA of Online Programmes

Follow standards: technical standards, quality standards

Set Benchmarks, indicators and descriptors: for content, instructional design, student assessment, technology, learner support

Assure Quality processes: Internal quality assurance through self-regulation and capacity building

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