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3 février 2013

Quality assurance in a changing higher education world

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By Karen MacGregor. The first annual meeting of the US Council for Higher Education Accreditation’s International Quality Group was held last week, with a focus on the open education movement, growth of online, competency-based education and learning outside the traditional university – major higher education trends worldwide.
The gathering explored issues in international higher education and their implications for quality assurance, academic corruption, ‘open badges’ and new ways of validating learning achievement, the open education movement including MOOCs, quality assurance in Central and Eastern Europe, and whether higher education is addressing economic and employment challenges.
What the meeting of the CHEA International Quality Group (CIQG) and the CHEA annual conference that preceded it tried to do, President Judith S Eaton told University World News, was “to focus on what the future is going to be like. Read more...

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3 février 2013

LINQ 2013 - Innovations and Quality: The Future of Digital Resources

The European and International Conference LINQ 2013 is taking place on the 13^th and 14^thof May, 2013 in Rome, Italy. This year, LINQ 2013 and its motto "Innovations and Quality: The Future of Digital Resources" addresses and invites experts active in the field of Innovations and Quality in Lifelong Learning (LLL): potential points of access to this field include new learning methods and design, Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL), quality standards and certification, human resources development, competences and skills, digital resources, learning materials, and online collaboration and communities. Through these themes, LINQ 2013 will bring together an international audience of various academic and professional backgrounds, providing the foundation for a rewarding exchange of knowledge and experience. Interested researchers and organizations are thus welcome to submit their best work on the conference topics (in detail below) by the 4th of February 2013 (paper submission deadline).
For the latest information on the conference, please visit the conference website http://www.learning-innovations.eu/ and like the LINQ Conference Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LINQConference and follow the LINQ Conference Twitter account at www.twitter.com/LINQ_Conference. Direct enquiries and full papers can be sent to the LINQ Conference Manager Mrs Anne-Christin Tannhuser, at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany, via e-Mail to: anne.tannhaeuser (at) icb.uni-due.de. Website: LINQ 2013.

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3 février 2013

LINQ 2013

Only a Few Days Remain for Submissions to LINQ 2013
The deadline for paper and project submissions for the 2nd European conference on "Learning Innovations and Quality" is approaching. We encourage interested parties to prepare their project descriptions and scientific papers for presentation during the conference, on the 13th and 14th of May of this year, in Rome, Italy. The first submission period ends on the 4th of February.
This year's motto is "Innovations and Quality: The Future of Digital Resources" - submissions should define existing results, on-going work or innovative concepts related to the following themes:
• Innovations and future trends in Learning, Education and Training (LET) • Quality improvement and learning outcome orientation in LET
• Harmonization of innovations and quality development in LET
• Digital resources, online repositories and metadata for online objects
• Web 2.0, Social Media and Online Communities for LET
• Open access, open educational resources and user-generated content
• Technology‐Enhanced Learning for schools, universities and lifelong learning
• Learning quality in vocational education and training and HR
• Implementation of learning innovations and quality improvements
• Knowledge, innovation and ideas management in LET contexts
• Standardisation of LET design, production and services
• Quality management, standards, and certification in LET
• Competence and skills development in lifelong learning
• Quality and standardization of learning assessment and evaluation
Specific guidelines and requirements for paper and project submissions can be found on the conference website at www.learning-innovations.eu. For the latest information on the conference, please visit the LINQ Conference Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LINQConference and follow the LINQ Conference Twitter account at www.twitter.com/LINQ_Conference.

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3 février 2013

APQN 2013 Conference, April 7-8, Chinese Taipei

The APQN 2013 Conference and AGM will be hosted by the Taiwan Assessment and Evaluation Association (TWAEA) in Chinese Taipei in April 7 to 8, 2013, which is in the same venue with the 2013 INQAAHE Conference in April 8-11, 2013.
The main theme of the 2013 Asia-Pacific Quality Network Conference is: Has external QA made an impact? Looking back at the decade of Quality assurance. The sub-themes are:
• Has EQA made real impact on Quality in higher educational institutions?
• Innovations in quality assurance
• Quality Assurance and student mobility
• Do we need Regional and International accreditation?
• Living with national and global rankings- what is the response of QA community?
• Promoting Quality assurance in higher education as a profession- Learning from Industry
• Internal quality assurance
• Student engagement in QA
In addition, a number of topics will be covered in the workshops and parallel sessions. Following is the indicative list of the topics that will be of interest to the APQN members:
• Assuring Quality of Distance and e-learning programs
• Benchmarking and making of world class universities
• Developing Quality Information Systems
You are invited to present a paper on a topic of your choice related to one of the topics above. Ideas for topics can be drawn from the list of theme and sub-themes, or can be of your own choice. Please indicate how your selected topic relates to the theme of the Conference.
Please find the Call for Contribution here. And send your submission to fangle666@gmail.com and administrator@apqn.org by February 15, 2013. The online registration has been opened on the page: http://www.apqn.org/events/.

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3 février 2013

Transparency of European higher education through public quality assurance reports - EQArep

ENQA has recently obtained funding for a LLP/Erasmus proposal. The two-year project started on 1 October and will end on 30 September 2014. The project, entitled “Transparency of European higher education through public quality assurance reports” (EQArep), aims at developing European standards for quality assurance reports.
The consortium of the project includes ENQA (as applicant and coordinator), the Swiss Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in HE (OAQ), the Irish Universities Quality Board (IUQB), the Agency for Science and Higher Education (ASHE) and the Estonian Higher Education Quality Agency (EKKA).
The project will map the current publication practices, explore the different needs of stakeholders for transparent and comparable information, develop standards for different types of quality assurance reports in the EHEA and evaluate whether a European template for quality assurance reports is feasible.
The project will result in a recommendation to quality assurance agencies on the content and form of informative and approachable quality assurance reports. Thus the envisaged impact is a higher degree of comparability of quality assurance reports and consequently a better contribution of quality assurance to transparency of higher education at the European level.

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2 février 2013

The new quality teaching guide for higher education institutions

The new quality teaching guide for higher education institutions.
INTRODUCTION
In 2008, the OECD launched the AHELO feasibility study, an initiative with the objective to assess whether it is possible to develop international measures of learning outcomes in higher education.
Learning outcomes are indeed key to a meaningful education, and focusing on learning outcomes is essential to inform diagnosis and improve teaching processes and student learning. While there is a long tradition of learning outcomes’ assessment within institutions’courses and programmes, emphasis on learning outcomes has become more important in recent years. Interest in developing comparative measures of learning outcomes has increased in response to a range of higher education trends, challenges and paradigm shifts.
AHELO aims to complement institution-based assessments by providing a direct evaluation of student learning outcomes at the global level and to enable institutions to benchmark the performance of their students against their peers as part of their improvement efforts. Given AHELO’s global scope, it is essential that measures of learning outcomes are valid across diverse cultures and languages as well as different types of higher education institutions (HEIs). The purpose of the feasibility study is to see whether it is practically and scientifically feasible to assess what students in higher education know and can do upon graduation within and across these diverse contexts. The feasibility study should demonstrate what is feasible and what could be feasible, what has worked well and what has not, as well as provide lessons and stimulate reflection on how learning outcomes might be most effectively measured in the future.
The outcomes of the feasibility study will be presented in the following ways:
- this first volume of the feasibility study Report focusing on the design and implementation processes;
- a second volume which will be published in February 2013 on data analysis and national experiences;
- the feasibility study Conference which will take place in Paris on 11-12 March 2013; and
- a third and final volume to be published in April 2013 on further insights (and which will include the conference proceedings).
Download the new quality teaching guide for higher education institutions.

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28 janvier 2013

Better planning and data needed to raise HE quality

By Patrick Boehler. Education professionals from Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand met in Hong Kong from 14-18 January to better understand how to improve the gathering and processing of data for more accurate planning for their education systems up to universities, under a UNESCO programme to promote education policy coordination in Asia. Citing the need for better planning Aryo Sawung, a director general with the Indonesian Ministry of Education, said: “We have not yet addressed problems beyond increasing the [education] participation rate.”
“Our next step will be to look into more accurate budgeting and how to set quality standards,” said Aryo, who attended the weeklong workshop, which involved almost 85 ministry officials and university researchers from Asia. Read more...

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19 janvier 2013

Guidelines of Good Practice

One arm of INQAAHE’s Mission is to “develop and promote standards of professional practice in QA”. The professional practices that INQAAHE believes should be embedded in all quality agencies are set out in the Guidelines of Good Practice in Quality Assurance (commonly referred to as GGP).
The Guidelines of Good Practice are the work of quality assurance agencies from over 65 countries. These agencies are dedicated to ensuring that higher education students throughout the whole world have access to high quality education. The Guidelines are designed to be used by all quality assurance agencies, whatever their stage of development may be.
The original Guidelines of Good Practice were published in 2003 and were revised in 2006. This revision reflects the experience of the institutions, programs, and reviewers who have used the 2003 version. It is intended to continue the INQAAHE process of permanent improvement. Comments on the Guidelines may be sent to the INQAAHE Secretariat at any time.
The Guidelines contain an introduction and four sections.
Section I: The EQAA: Accountability, Transparency and Resources
Section II: Institutions of Higher Education and the EQAA: Relationship, Standards and Internal Reviews
Section III: EQAA Review of Institutions: Evaluation, Decision and Appeals
Section IV: External Activities: Collaboration with Other Agencies and Transnational/Cross-Border Education.
Download the INQAAHE Guidelines of Good Practice.

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19 janvier 2013

ASEM seminar on Quality Assurance in Higher Education

ASEM seminar on Quality Assurance in Higher Education took place on 11-12 October 2012 in Sevres (France). During the seminar the importance of the quality assurance as one of the priority areas for education cooperation between Asia and Europewas stressed. Within the ASEM framework, the need for flexibility in developing instruments for cooperation and international dialogue was discussed, which aimed to facilitate the mobility of students and graduates.
Possibilities to further enhance cooperation concerning quality assurance in higher education were discussed and proposals were developed to be presented to the 4th Asia Europe Meeting of Ministers for Education (ASEMME 4) to be held in Kuala Lumpur in May 2013.
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ASEM Seminar on Quality Assurance
Since the first Asia-Europe Meeting of Ministers for Education in Berlin 2008 (ASEMME1), leaders acknowledged the importance of quality assurance in higher education in order to ensure sustainable growth of today’s society. In the course of the second and third Ministerial Meetings (ASEMME2 and ASEMME3), the Ministers for Education welcomed different country initiatives to strengthen cooperation between Asian and European stakeholders in quality assurance.
According to the Chair’s Conclusions from ASEMME3 In Copenhagen 2011, Ministers "laid emphasis on strengthening interregional cooperation in the field of external quality assurance between quality assurance agencies and networks in Asia and Europe by organising joint meetings, with a view to develop common principles of quality assurance across the ASEM education area. Germany offers to host a first expert seminar in 2011. In order to ensure the continuity of the dialogue on quality assurance a seminar will be held in France in 2012. Progress and results will be presented for ASEMME4.

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19 janvier 2013

Recent developments in quality assurance in the Netherlands

By Marielk. Episode 37 of our podcast series features dr. Don F. Westerheijden who reflects on recent developments in quality assurance in the Netherlands, after a large scale public scandal highlighting doubts over quality in a number of Dutch higher education institutions.
Dr. Don F. Westerheijden is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) in University of Twente in Netherlands. He obtained his PhD from University of Twente and is now working as a co-ordinator of research related to quality management. Read more...

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