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Quality of OER/eLearning E-Merge Africa Network Seminar30th November – 4th Dec 2015
Dr Ephraim Mhlanga
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Increasing Offerings
Prevalence of online learning:• Number of online learners• Number of online courses• Number of institutions offering online courses
Concern about lack of sufficient regulation
National accreditation agencies no QA framework
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Quality is Contested
Is it like beauty that lies in the eyes of the beholder?• What does quality really mean? • Who sets the quality standards? • Whose interests do the standards serve? • Is quality context-dependent? • Are we accepting quality standards that have been developed
elsewhere (and do not apply to the African context?)• What specific challenges are you facing around quality?
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Quality “ball on the hill”
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Quality as standards set
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Broad Quality Aspects
Knowledge, Skills & Competencies
quality of student engagement
Quality of learner support
Quality of course design
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Salmon’S Five –Stage Model
Learner Role Facilitator role
https://youtu.be/4pKsZ6dVhlI?
Information Exchange
Access & Motivation
Development
Online Socialisation
Knowledge Construction
Welcomer, Supporter
Mentor & Enabler
Facilitator
Task setter, Teacher, Tutor
Host, Process Establisher
Integration, External links & Search
Conferencing, Contact, Interaction
Navigation, Personalisation, Time Saving
Receiving & Sending
Passwords, Getting on
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But Learning is a Purposeful Activity
• What will they learn?
• Why should they learn it?
• How will they learn?
• How will I know they have learned?
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THANK YOU
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