accrediting digital education: lessons from the maltese experience
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Accrediting Digital Education
Lessons from the Maltese Experience
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Trust is about Perception
Key Concepts
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Recognition and Assessment is impossible without a
currency
Key Concepts
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Currency is issuedby authorised and
respected institutions
Key Concepts
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The base currency of learning in Europe is ECTS
Key Concepts
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ECTS
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European QualificationsFramework
adapts
defines Malta QualificationsFramework
Recipe for different qualifications
# ofECTS
learningoutcomes
level
DegreesDiplomas
SpecialisationsCertificates
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Best Indicator of a Quality Qualification
is a Quality Institution
Key Concepts
Overview of the Maltese System
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True student choice requirestrusted qualifications
Key Concepts
Overview of the Maltese System
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Quality teaching involves determing
fitness for purpose
Key Concepts
Overview of the Maltese System
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What is different about digital education?
assessment & are untrusted
• Specify methods of assessment security
• Specify methods of ensuring student identity
high level of unbundling &
internationalisation
• Check the of all staff involved: design, delivery, support
• No distinction between subcontractors and provider institutions
easy to create diploma mills
• only accredited institutions may offer qualifications pegged to the qualifications framework
• Legal sanction for those who peg it badly
new pedagogies are unproven
• expert group to evaluate evidence & provide provisional licensing under conditions if possible
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Looking Forward to the debate
Anthony F. Camilleri – [email protected] http://www.slideshare.net/anthonycamilleri