he quality enhancement, oecd paris 18092012
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How can higher education maintain and improve quality?
Attaining and Sustaining Mass Higher Education 17-19 September 2012
OECD Headquarters, Paris, France
Dr. Outi KallioinenLahti University of Applied Sciences
1. How can larger intakes and greater diversity in the student body be reconciled with maintaining challenging courses and academic standards?
2. How can countries and institutions maintain and enhance quality when constrained by limited resources?
3. How can quality assurance, accreditation, financing or other mechanisms verify quality and drive improvement while respecting institutional autonomy?
4. What institutional strategies can be most effective to enhance quality, improve the student learning experience and keep students engaged?
Quality System in Lahti University of Applied Sciences
Quality tools
• Process modelling, evaluation and development• Internal assessments• Feedback questionnaires• Feedback days• Development conversations with personell• External assessments (e.g. centres of excellence by the FINHEEC)• Benchmarking (to disseminate good practices)• Continuous dialogue and cooperation with different actors• Communication tools
QUALITY MANUAL/ASSESSMENT PLAN
THE AIM OF QUALITY SYSTEM IS TO PROMOTE GOOD LEARNING
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Strategic developmentDevelopment of Education
RDI developmentDevelopment of Support
ServicesDevelopment of Quality
System
PLAN DO
FUAS Vision 2020FUAS Strategy 2011-2015
FUAS Action Plan 2010-2012FUAS Alliance agreement
ACTPerspectives and measurement targets/FUAS-strategic indicators:International prestige and competivenessRegional impactComprehensive education and RDI servicesShared operating culture
Other monitoring and evaluation of information: Student and stakeholder feedbackInternational and other evaluationCross-evaluationsMaintenance manual
Strategy and management processEducation processRDI-processSupport Services
Preliminary description of FUAS Quality System
The Theme Evaluation of Degree Programmes - cross-evaluation
In 2009 - 2010
Evaluation targets:
- Teaching methods and developing
- RD-work
- Progress/advancement of studies
The process:
1) Self-evaluation
2) Evaluation of another degree programme
3) Benchmarking session
4) Reporting
5) Utilizing the results
Curriculum - process and development
• The process is modelled: Who ? What? When?
> common commission (idea of learning, competence based curriculum, focus areas of developing, timing)
• Development: - Process evaluation - New challenges (new strategies in LUAS, cooperating in
FUAS etc.)