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Quality Assurance in Online Education
Quality Assurance in Online and Blended LearningPatrick Kiely, Office of the Vice-President for Teaching and Learning
UCC and Online Learning
• Organic development initially
• Now a strategic priority
• Pilot Programme – 24 Master’s Degree Programmes in 3 phases over 4 years
Pilot Programme 2012-2017
• Academic Council e-Learning Subcommittee
• Income Generation Group
• Develop standards and guidelines for online and blended learning
• Identify issues and take steps to resolve these
Programme Approval Process
• Outline Programme Approval
• Full Programme Approval
• Major Changes to Existing Programmes
• Minor Changes to Existing Programmes
• Office of Academic Programmes and Regulations
• http://www.ucc.ie/en/apar/
Quality Assurance – Suitability for Online Delivery
Income Generation Group (IGG) Selection Group•Programme Quality and Design•Innovative Online/Blended Programme characteristics •Feasibility•Market Research •Sustainability•Contribution to College and University strategy
http://www.ucc.ie/en/teachlearn/vp/tel/onlinecourses/
Programme Development Work Packages
• Pre-Development• Stakeholder Engagement• Programme Selection• Programme Content and
Delivery Design • Prgramme Content
Development• Programme Deployment • Programme Delivery • Programme Review and
Evaluation
Quality Assurance Standards
• Following the Path of the Student - Student Centred
• Pedagogical Focus• Universal Design for
Learning• Accessibility
(international good practice)
• Modern web standards • Mobile friendly
QA: Recognition of Iterative Development
• All standards may not be achieved in Year 1
• Roadmap to standards compliance for following years
• Iterative development of content and pedagogy
Assessment of Learning Outcomes
More continuous (formative) assessment
Less end of year exams and written
More active learning
Mitigates issues of student identity verification
Review and Evaluation
Module evaluation a more frequent and less onerous imposition
Fortnightly 4 question surveys
For additional information
Patrick Kiely Project Manager, Technology-Enabled-Learning Coordinator,Office of the Vice-President for Teaching and Learning,University College Cork [email protected]
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