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ENPC, Altran SDB 1

1st December 2004

The DLAE Project: Aims, Methods and First Results

Distance Learning Accreditation in Europe

Amaury Legait – ENPC ([email protected])Mar González – Altran SDB ([email protected])

1st December 2004 Authors: ENPC, ALTRAN SDB 2

The DLAE Project: Accreditation

[ What is accreditation in higher education?

[ Accreditation in distance learning

[ Our proposal, the SIG-DLAE approach


[ What is accreditation in higher education?

[ Objectives:To improve the quality of higher educationTo give confidence to families and potential employersTo foster academic improvement

[ When applicable:Ease transfer of credits (e.g. ECTS label)Support international marketing

The DLAE Project: Accreditation in Higher Education


The DLAE Project: Accreditation in Higher Education

[What is accreditation in higher education?

[ Methods:

•Guided peer review

•Assessment of students achievement with respect to objectives of programme and institution

•Evaluation of staff, faculty, premises

•When applicable, evaluation of programmes, policies


The DLAE Project: Accreditation in Distance Learning

[ Accreditation in distance learning

• Accreditation processes in distance learning are comparable to accreditation processes in face to face teaching.

• Specific criteria (technology, pedagogy) are used.

• For some people, the issue of exams is critical.

• Professional success of former students remains the reference; in this respect face to face curriculum is some time a reference; the goal should be no difference between distance/face to face.


The DLAE Project: Acceptability of Accreditation

[ Acceptability of accreditation in higher education[ Pros

•Accreditation is a guarantee for students•Accreditation bodies are accountable on behalf of students, of government or on behalf of the European Union.•Accreditation is fair, independent and based on public criteria.•Required by mobility of students and professionals.

[ Contras•Expensive and time consuming.•Quality in higher education is implicit in the course. It is based on research evaluated by peer review.•No legal requirement (yet).

[ A survey made by SIG-DLAE presented later on


[ ENPC - Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées Paris - France - Project Coordinator

[ MMB - Institute for Media and Competence ResearchEssen - Germany

[ KTH - Royal Institute of TechnologyStockholm - Sweden

[ Altran SDB – Consultancy in High TechMadrid - Spain

[ Politecnico di MilanoMilan - Italy

DLAE Project : Partners


DLAE Project: Aims

[ Mission Statement• To review the national accreditation systems, compile the best

practices and adapt these for a European accreditation process. The main output from the project is a proposal for a European accreditation system in e-learning and covering, where applicable, blended learning or learning making a limited use of e-learning.

[ Main Objectives• To compare the European experiences on distance learning with an

existing accreditation referential (criteria, methodology, policy, etc.).

• To improve and enlarge these criteria from the exchange of information on the practical experiences done by partners of our project and more generally in higher educational institutions in Europe.

• To adapt these criteria for the definition of an emerging European accreditation process in e-learning.


[ Review Accreditation bodies (examples) EU: France (CTI), Germany (Akkreditierungsrat), Italy (ASFOR), Spain (ANECA), UK (ODLQC), Austria (FHC), The Netherlands (NVAO), etc. USA: CHEA, DETC

[ Identify best practices (focusing on pedagogical issues) Eligibility Pedagogy Management

[ Accreditation System: Processes and criteria Policies (quality, management), teaching methods, institution support to students

Staff and faculty CVs, resources, programme history, student results

[ Experimentation (presented later on) At selected courses from KTH and Politecnico di Milano Improve the accreditation system

[ European Proposal

DLAE Project: Methodology


DLAE Project: First Results - General Accreditation Process


DLAE Project: First Results - Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility criteria:[ Your degree is at the master level (actual interest of SIG-

DLAE partners).

[ Your programme is distance e-learning supported.

[ Your institution has an explicit quality policy.

[ Your programme has, at least, been running during the past

two years.


DLAE Project: First Results - Pedagogical Evaluation

Requirements(professional profile)

Objectives

Contents Tools

Realization

Long term evaluation

Middle term assessment

Pedagogical evaluation

Pedagogical & technological evaluation

Student’s satisfaction


DLAE Project: First Results - Management Evaluation

Human Resources• Management• Faculty• Training of staff• Administration

Physical Resources• Hardware and software• Security

Institution

• Mission statement

• Communication

• Admission

• Legal issues

• Relation with enterprises

• Quality plan

• Resources


[ First version of Accreditation System, to be experimented

[ Survey (presented later on)

[ Publications (articles)

[ Links (EQO, next meeting in Essen, CHEA, DETC, next meeting in Washington)

[ Questions under review

Eligibility Criteria

Pedagogical Criteria

Management Criteria

DLAE Project: First Results - Current status and next steps


Thank you very much for your attention!

For more information: http://dlae.enpc.fr

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