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QUALITY ASSURANCE OF E-LEARNINGMETHODOLOGIES & ISSUES TO CONSIDER
ANTHONY F. CAMILLERI – KNOWLEDGE INNOVATION CENTREELIXIR WORKSHOP, LJUBLJANA 15/09/2015
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
THREATS TO QUALITY ONLINE EDUCATION
Content Management Diploma Mills Digital
Evangelisminstead of
Learning Design
Quality Degrees
Pedagogical Soundness
SELECTED TRENDS IN ONLINE, OPEN AND FLEXIBLE HIGHER EDUCATION
Quality Labelsfor e-
learning
LearningAnalytics
Increasing demand for
recognition & portability
Growth of OER
QUALITY MODELS FOR E-LEARNING
40+ Quality Models on OER; MOOCs, E-learning, Online learning
Certification Benchmarking
Accreditation Advisory
QUALITY MODELS LOOK AT THE SAME ASPECTS
Three significant areas related to quality in online learning, including e-learning (Ossiannilsson, 2012).
QA challenge:
which quality approach
fits me best?
LEARNING ANALYTICS CAN TELL US
methods• A/B Testing• usage statistics on resources• detailed grading data• social network analysis• live performance monitoring• student record monitoring
tell us• how students interact with
materials, each others and tutors
• which materials and methods work best
• which students are in danger of falling behind
• social issues & equity issues
QA-RELATED ISSUES TO CONSIDER
Can we claim a course to be quality without
data?How do we define an expert in the future?
GROWTH IN OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
April 2014:
3045 learning repositories – 7% growth year-on-year
with 12 million learning objects
Source:repository66.org
GROWTH IN MOOCS
March 2015:
1139 European MOOCs
220% Year-on-Year Growth
Source:openeducationeuropa.eu
QA-RELATED ISSUES TO CONSIDER
How to adapt teacher performance metrics to consider use/re-use of
their resources?
How does open resources affect
concepts of efficiency?
INCREASED DEMAND FOR RECOGNITION
BadgesCertificates of
attendanceCertificates of
completionECTSDiplomas and Degrees
easily mapped toQualifications Framework
Hard/Impossible to map toQualifications Framework
CHALLENGES FOR QA
Students Expect HE
to provide portable
and recognisable
qualifications
Equivalent Quality across all
qualification types
Quality of theQualification itself
(recognition & portability as elements of quality)
THANK YOU FORYOUR ATTENTION
ANTHONY F. CAMILLERIANTHONY@KNOWLEDGEINNOVATIONEU
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