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Book Synopsis Quality Assurance of E-learning. ENQA Workshop Report 14 by : Josep Grifoll
Download or read book Quality Assurance of E-learning. ENQA Workshop Report 14 written by Josep Grifoll and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E-learning in the European Higher Education Area has stampeded its way to the foreground of the Quality Assurance (QA) forum, and has become a key issue among quality assurance agencies and institutions in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Because internet-based learning is currently such a relevant topic, there is a dire need for the creation of a common language and guidelines amongst all QA agencies in order to proceed in a collectively positive direction in regards to developing a quality culture within the frame of E-learning further. This report gives a general overview of the matters discussed and challenges faced within the sector of quality assurance in E-learning. The workshop ENQA held in coordination with the National Agency for Higher Education, in Sigtuna, Sweden in October, 2009 created a dialogue between institutions, quality assurance agencies, students and other stakeholders who are directly affected by the quality of E-learning, and the need for continuous improvement in this field that will foster positive outcomes. Articles included in this report are: (1) E-learning in the context of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) (Josep Grifoll); (2) How to assess an E-learning institution: Methodology, design and implementation (Esther Huertas, Anna Prades and Sebastian Rodriguez); (3) Modern E-learning: Qualitative education accessibility concept (Yuri Rubin); (4) Challenges for quality assurance organisations: The case of NVAO (Fred Mulder); and (5) Benchmarking eLearning in higher education (Ebba Ossiannilsson). Programme of the workshop is appended. Individual articles contain figures, tables, and references. (Contains 49 footnotes.).
Book Synopsis Toward Quality Assurance and Excellence in Higher Education by : Ahmed Odeh Al Jaber
Download or read book Toward Quality Assurance and Excellence in Higher Education written by Ahmed Odeh Al Jaber and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality Assurance is not a new concept in the education sector in general, and higher education in particular, though it is becoming increasingly more relevant and important. Higher education helps to improve an individual's quality of life by enabling them to inflate their knowledge and expertise, to grasp abstract concepts and theories, and to raise their awareness of the world and their community, and as such the assurance of quality is becoming more pivotal in the whole education process.There is no simple definition of the concept of quality in education, though numerous models and theories have been devised. Toward Quality Assurance and Excellence of Higher Education is a new episode of the Quality Assurance perception in higher education, which identifies the quality culture and orientation from the beginning, integrating crucial factors to build a “pyramid” of higher education excellence. The book compares concepts from the main theories of Quality Assurance, management and control when they are applied to educational systems in higher education. The book also presents a new model of excellence in higher education. Excellence is an architecture of building blocks that comes with process performance, effectiveness, harmony and collaboration which should be incorporated in a quality-oriented concept of a sustainable excellence of higher education. The model integrates four main facets: the Educational System, Quality Assurance Managing and Control, Strategic Planning and Globalization. Also presented are international “best-practices” in quality assurance in higher education, from Japan and Finland.
Book Synopsis Quality Assurance and Learning Outcomes. ENQA Workshop Report 17 by : Lena Adamson
Download or read book Quality Assurance and Learning Outcomes. ENQA Workshop Report 17 written by Lena Adamson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning outcomes are described as written statements of what a learner is expected to know, understand and/or be able to do at the end of a period of learning. At the beginning of the 90s, a EU pilot project on ECTS showed that study programmes were much easier to compare if they were described in terms of outcomes, instead of inputs. The importance of learning outcomes will increase for several reasons. Firstly, learning outcomes make qualifications more transparent for students. Then, the range of graduates is becoming wider and thanks to learning outcomes, employers may have a better understanding of the acquired knowledge, skills and competences in order to recruit the most suitable candidate. Learning outcomes benefit for quality assurance as they increase transparency and comparability between qualification standards. Learning outcomes are also valuable in terms of course design. This report presents four articles based on the ENQA workshop on the theme "Quality Assurance and Learning Outcomes" that was held in September 2010 in Vienna, Austria. The workshop addressed the question of what stakeholders expect from quality assurance agencies in connection with learning outcome orientation. The opportunities and challenges of the learning outcome orientation in the higher education sector were discussed from different perspectives. The workshop tried to define the role that learning outcomes should play in external quality assurance and how they can or should be considered within the scope of external quality assurance. Articles included in this paper are: (1) On quality assurance and learning outcomes: Evaluating students' work within institutions or institutional work with students? (Lena Adamson); (2) Learning outcomes in external quality assurance: The case of Spain (Maria Becerro, Laureano Gonzalez-Vega & Juan Jose Sobrino); (3) Determining whether intended learning outcomes meet subject-specific and academic and/or professional requirements (Peter Cullen); and (4) Which requirements should the formulation of learning outcomes meet? (Norma Ryan). ENQA Workshop: "Quality Assurance and Learning Outcomes" is appended. (Contain 3 figures, 2 tables, and 14 footnotes.).
Book Synopsis Online Distance Education by : Olaf Zawacki-Richter
Download or read book Online Distance Education written by Olaf Zawacki-Richter and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda offers a systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas of priority in online distance education research. In each chapter, an international expert or team of experts provides an overview of one timely issue in online distance education, summarizing major research on the topic, discussing theoretical insights that guide the research, posing questions and directions for future research, and discussing the implications for distance education practice as a whole. Intended as a primary reference and guide for distance educators, researchers, and policymakers, Online Distance Education addresses aspects of distance education practice that have often been marginalized, including issues of cost and economics, concerns surrounding social justice, cultural bias, the need for faculty professional development, and the management and growth of learner communities. At once soundly empirical and thoughtfully reflective, yet also forward-looking and open to new approaches to online and distance teaching, this text is a solid resource for researchers in a rapidly expanding discipline.
Book Synopsis Quality Assurance in Vietnamese Higher Education by : Cuong Huu Nguyen
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Vietnamese Higher Education written by Cuong Huu Nguyen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of quality assurance in Vietnamese higher education under the centralised management of the government after 15 years of development. By implementing quality assurance and accreditation mechanisms, the Vietnamese government expected to be able to control and improve the quality of the higher education system. The editors and contributors therefore examine and analyse policies and practices related to the establishment and development of Vietnam's quality assurance system. Amongst other things, the chapters investigate drivers of quality assurance, stakeholders engaged in quality assurance and the future of quality assurance in Vietnamese higher education in benchmarking with other quality assurance systems in the region and across the world. This book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of Vietnamese higher education, as well as quality assurance in higher education more generally, but particularly in developing nations.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on Quality Assurance and Value Management in Higher Education by : Nuninger, Walter
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Quality Assurance and Value Management in Higher Education written by Nuninger, Walter and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of quality and sustainability in higher education institutions ensures that proper standards are maintained. Such enforced standardization allows for the highest caliber of training opportunities for various fields and disciplines. The Handbook of Research on Quality Assurance and Value Management in Higher Education is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on quality management and assurance programs and standards in college-level environments. Highlighting global perspectives on academic and professional learning, this book is ideally designed for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and professionals actively involved in the field of higher education.
Book Synopsis Quality Assurance and Transparency Tools. ENQA Workshop Report 15 by : Nathalie Costes
Download or read book Quality Assurance and Transparency Tools. ENQA Workshop Report 15 written by Nathalie Costes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) realises that there is a steadily growing interest among students and all stakeholders of Higher Education and the public at large in accessing detailed and reliable information on the quality of individual study programmes, faculties and higher education institutions. ENQA is aware that external quality assurance activities in higher education set up by quality assurance agencies are producing only part of the information. Besides quality assurance agencies that enshrine their activities in the ESG, there is a growing number of providers of information about higher education. The proliferation of ranking schemes and other transparency tools is one aspect of this increasing need for information about higher education institutions and their activities. The purpose of this seminar was to discuss expectations from higher education institutions and other stakeholders concerning information on quality of higher education, and the contribution of quality assurance and transparency tools to meet these expectations. The outcome of the discussions is a position paper on information and transparency tools, which can be found in Part 2 of this report. This paper is divided into two parts: (1) Key messages; and (2) ENQA position paper on transparency tools. Programme of the Seminar is appended. (Contains 2 footnotes.).
Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on E-Assessment in Higher Education by : Azevedo, Ana
Download or read book Handbook of Research on E-Assessment in Higher Education written by Azevedo, Ana and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E-assessments of students profoundly influence their motivation and play a key role in the educational process. Adapting assessment techniques to current technological advancements allows for effective pedagogical practices, learning processes, and student engagement. The Handbook of Research on E-Assessment in Higher Education provides emerging perspectives on the theoretical and practical aspects of digital assessment techniques and applications within educational settings. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as competency assessment, adaptive courseware, and learning performance, this publication is ideally designed for educational administrators, educational professionals, teachers and professors, researchers, and graduate-level students seeking current research on comparative studies and the pedagogical issues of online assessment in academic institutions.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on Operational Quality Assurance in Higher Education for Life-Long Learning by : Nuninger, Walter
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Operational Quality Assurance in Higher Education for Life-Long Learning written by Nuninger, Walter and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously, key levers of higher education have seemed to be the learning organization, work-integrated learning for life-long learning, and learner-centered pedagogy. However, funding evolution and the integration of digital tools are changing professional styles and learning behaviors. Nonetheless, the sustainability of higher education requires quality agreement based on ethical, robust, and replicable pedagogical approaches. The Handbook of Research on Operational Quality Assurance in Higher Education for Life-Long Learning is a comprehensive scholarly book that focuses on the evolution of the education framework and job market as well as necessary changes needed in organizations to reply to life-long learning and competency-based training initiatives. Highlighting topics such as digital environment, e-learning, and learning analytics, this book is essential for higher education faculty, managers, deans, professionals, administrators, educators, academicians, researchers, and policymakers.
Book Synopsis Supporting Multiculturalism in Open and Distance Learning Spaces by : Toprak, Elif
Download or read book Supporting Multiculturalism in Open and Distance Learning Spaces written by Toprak, Elif and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing interest in transnational cooperation in education across borders has different implications for developed and developing countries. It is true that globalization affects all societies, but not at the same speed and magnitude. Supporting Multiculturalism in Open and Distance Learning Spaces is a critical scholarly resource that examines cultural issues and challenges in distance education arising from the convergence of theoretical, administrative, instructional, communicational, and technological dimensions of global education. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as cultural diversity, interaction in distance education, and culturally sensitive intuitional design, this book is geared towards school administrators, universities and colleges, policy makers, organizations, and researchers.
Download or read book Quality written by S. P. Mukherjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive overview of quality and quality management. It also explores total quality management, covering its human, technological and analytical imperatives. It also examines quality systems and system standards, highlighting essential features and avoiding a reproduction of the ISO 9000 standard, as well as people-related issues in implementing a quality system. A holistic understanding of quality considerations, which now permeate every aspect of human life, should guide related policies, plans and practices. The book describes the all-pervasive characteristics of quality, putting together diverse definitions of "quality," outlining its different dimensions, and linking it with reliability and innovation. It goes on to assess the quality of measurements in terms of precision, accuracy and uncertainty and discusses managing quality with a focus on business performance. This is followed by a chapter on improving process quality, which is the summum bonum of quality management, and a chapter addressing the crucial problem of measuring customer satisfaction through appropriate models and tools. Further, it covers non-traditional subjects such as quality of life, quality of working life, quality assurance and improvement in education, with special reference to higher education, quality in research and development and characterizes the quality-related policies and practices in Indian industry. The last chapter provides a broad sketch of some recent advances in statistical methods for quality management. Along with the research community, the book’s content is also useful for practitioners and industry watchers.
Book Synopsis Quality Assurance in Higher Education by : Maria João Rosa
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Higher Education written by Maria João Rosa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book weighs up the consequences of introducing Quality Enhancement and Risk Management as new dimensions in Higher Education quality control on a global scale. The authors include Chief Executive Officers of Quality Agencies, policy analysts and leading scholars in Quality Evaluation and Comparative Higher Education policy analysis.
Book Synopsis European Higher Education at the Crossroads by : Adrian Curaj
Download or read book European Higher Education at the Crossroads written by Adrian Curaj and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-17 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romania hosts the 2012 Bologna / European Higher Education Area Ministerial Conference and the Third Bologna Policy Forum. In preparation for these meetings, The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) organised the Future of Higher Education - Bologna Process Researchers’ Conference (FOHE-BPRC) in Bucharest on 17-19 October 2011, with the support of the European University Association (EUA) and the Romanian National Committee for UNESCO. The conference brought the voices of researchers into international-level policy making in higher education. The results of the conference are presented in this book. Until now, empirical evidence supporting policies and reforms in higher education has often been a matter of local or regional focus. The development of a pan-European process in higher education policy drives a need to explore wider research topics on which to base policies. This book offers an unprecedented opportunity for higher education researchers to interact and contribute to the political process shaping the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), and to national policy agendas in more than 100 participant countries for the 2012 ministerial events. The book collects more than 50 articles focusing on vital issues in European higher education. These are arranged in sections addressing the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) Principles; Teaching and Learning; Quality Assurance; Mobility; Higher Education Governance in the EHEA; Funding of Higher Education; Diversification of Higher Education Missions; Higher Education Futures and Foresight.
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Book Synopsis Teacher Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by : Management Association, Information Resources
Download or read book Teacher Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 1699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators play a significant role in the intellectual and social development of children and young adults. Next-generation teachers can only be as strong as their own educational foundation which serves to cultivate their knowledge of the learning process, uncover best practices in the field of education, and employ leadership abilities that will inspire students of all ages. Teacher Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications explores the current state of pre-service teacher programs as well as continuing education initiatives for in-service educators. Emphasizing the growing role of technology in teacher skill development and training as well as key teaching methods and pedagogical developments, this multi-volume work compiles research essential to higher education professionals and administrators, educational software developers, and researchers studying pre-service and in-service teacher training.
Book Synopsis Quality Assurance and Qualifications Frameworks by : Carita Blomqvist
Download or read book Quality Assurance and Qualifications Frameworks written by Carita Blomqvist and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of qualifications frameworks and their relation to quality assurance is gaining urgency in the European scene as more and more countries are completing their national qualifications frameworks and quality assurance agencies need to take important decisions on how to implement them. Some of the key features of the qualifications frameworks are the specification of learning outcomes, processes for assessing learners' attainment of the expected outcomes, their relation to the ECTS, identification of transfer and progression routes, and recognition of prior learning. ENQA wanted to respond to the need of agencies to address the issue by providing a forum for exchange of experience and methods in implementation of qualifications frameworks and for a discussion on what these changes mean for the work of the agencies. The workshop from which this publication is an outcome of took place in Dublin on 9-10 February 2012. The workshop picked up and took forward work that ENQA had done in this area in the past years, and in particular since a workshop in 2007 on qualifications frameworks and workshop in 2010 on learning outcomes. This current publication presents seven articles covering themes such as the state of development of qualifications frameworks, the role of agencies in the self-certification process, and the meaning of qualifications frameworks in external quality assurance. In addition, an article presenting the view of the labour market sector on qualifications frameworks provides depth to the range of views provided. Also recognition of prior learning, assessment of learning outcomes, and qualifications frameworks and learning outcomes in programme oriented quality assurance are addressed by this publication. Articles included in this paper are: (1) Qualifications Frameworks in the European Higher Education Area: The State of Development and Perspectives for the Future (Carita Blomqvist); (2) The Role of Quality Assurance Agencies in the Self-Certification of Compatibility of NQFS with the QF-EHEA (Bryan Maguire); (3) Role and Meaning of Qualifications Frameworks in External Quality Assurance (Karin Jarplid Linde); (4) Quality Assurance and Qualifications Frameworks: A Stakeholder View (Tony Donohoe); (5) Qualifications Frameworks and Learning Outcomes in Programme Oriented Quality Assurance--A Brief Story of Denmark, and a Few International Comments (David Metz); (6) Recognition of Prior Learning and the Role of Quality Assurance Agencies. Accreditation of Prior Learning in France as a Case Study (Teresa Sanchez Chaparro); and (7) Assessment of Learning Outcomes: The Case of ANECA (Rafael Llavor). ENQA Workshop--Quality Assurance and Qualifications Frameworks: Exchanging good practice is appended. Individual articles contain references. (Contains 26 footnotes.).
Book Synopsis Quality Assurance in Lifelong Learning. ENQA Workshop Report 18 by : Endika Bengoetxea
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Lifelong Learning. ENQA Workshop Report 18 written by Endika Bengoetxea and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In view of the Bologna ministerial conference to be held in April 2012 in Bucharest, ENQA organised a seminar in September 2011 on Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes in collaboration with the Austrian Accreditation Council (OAR). The purpose of this seminar was twofold: first, to analyse the experience already gained in quality assurance of joint programmes as regards specific issues and methodological approaches, and second, to make recommendations to the ministers responsible for higher education in the European Higher Education Area. This report highlights the results of three projects, undertaken since 2004 and presented at the ENQA seminar in Vienna, to illustrate the width of experience that quality assurance agencies have in the quality assurance of joint programmes. The articles clearly show that what remains the major impediment for the agencies is not the conduct of QA of joint programmes in itself, but rather the national regulations for approval of the different joint programmes. Articles included in this report are: (1) A retrospective view of the Transnational European Evaluation Project (TEEP II) and identifying opportunities for the future (Josep Grifoll); (2) Joint Master's programmes--joint evaluations: A Nordic challenge (Kirsi Hiltunen); and (3) Joint programmes and mutual recognition of accreditation decisions (Mark Frederiks). Quality assurance of joint programmes is appended. (Contains 1 table and 17 footnotes.).
Book Synopsis Designing Learning by : Christopher Butcher
Download or read book Designing Learning written by Christopher Butcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this fully updated new edition of Designing Learning offers accessible guidance to help those new to teaching in higher education to design and develop a course. With new considerations to the higher education context, this book uses current educational research to support staff in their endeavour to design and develop modules and degree courses of the highest quality. Offering guidance on every stage, from planning to preparing materials and resources, with a focus on the promotion of learning, this book considers: Course design models and shapes, and their impact on learning How the external influences of learning and teaching are translated by different institutions How to match the content of a course to its outcomes Frameworks to enable communication between staff and students about expectations and standards Taking into account the diverse student population when designing a course The place of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), communication tools and systems for monitoring students' engagement The importance of linking all aspects of the taught curriculum and wider co-/extra-curricular activities to support learning Ways to evaluate and enhance a course and to develop oneself as a teaching professional in HE. Providing advice, illustrative examples and case studies, Designing Learning is a comprehensive guide to designing a high-quality course. This book is a must-read for any academic looking to create or update their course or module.
