Presentation on Quality in TEL On Micro, Meso And Macro Level, And Who Are The Stakeholders. Why And How Do They Have An Interest? at EDEN Special Interest Group on TEL and Quality Enabled Learning, webinar 21 November 2017

1. Quality in TEL On Micro,
Meso And Macro Level,
And Who Are The
Stakeholders. Why And
How Do They Have An
Interest?
EDEN Special Interest Group on TEL and
Quality Enabled Learning
21 November 2017

2. EDEN Webinar SIG
TEL QE: Facilitators
• Ebba Ossiannilsson, EDEN EC, The
Swedish Association for Distance
Education, Sweden
• Mark Nichols, EDEN EC, Open
University, United Kingdom
• Airina Volungeviciene, EDEN
President, Vytautas Magnus
University, Lithuania
EDEN SIG on TEL and Quality Enabled Learning
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3. • The EDEN Special Interest Group
(SIG) on Technology Enabled
Learning (TEL) and Quality
Enhancement (QE) was official
launched during the EDEN
Conference in Jönköping 13-16
June 2017. During the EDEN
conference EDEN showed its
competence and activities in the
field of TEL and QE. EDEN hosted
a series of four workshops during
the conference.
• EDEN’s rationale and action plan
on the work of launching a SIG on
TEL and QE
• Renewing the quality agenda
• Quality in TEL at micro, meso, and
macro levels, and identification of
stakeholders
• Innovation for quality leadership
EDEN SIG on TEL and Quality Enabled Learning
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4. Members of the EDEN SIG TEL
QE core group:
Ebba Ossiannilsson
Sandra Kucina Softic
Mark Nichols
Airina Volungevičienė
Antonella Poce
Antonio Teixera
Ulf- Daniel Ehlers
Jack Koumi
Yaacov Katz
Fred de Vries
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5. The term technology-enhanced learning
(TEL) is used to describe the application of
information and communication
technologies to teaching and learning.
• Explicit statements about
what the term is
understood to mean are
rare and it is not evident
that a shared
understanding has been
developed in higher
education of what
constitutes
an enhancement of the
student learning
experience (Kirkwood &
Price, 2016) .
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6. TEL-What is it about?
• Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL)
describe the use of technology to
support students’ learning. Using
this term makes it possible to avoid
potential ambiguities and differing
interpretations of the process. The
word enabled refers to facilitation:
learning is made possible by the
use of technology. It does not imply
the value judgment that the word
enhanced necessitates.
• Technology-Enabled Learning is
just about making learning
possible, whether that means
different ways of serving existing
learners or, potentially, providing
opportunities for learners who
were previously regarded as being
“out of reach” — that is, those
learners who typically have little to
no access to educational
opportunities because of a variety
of circumstances (Kirkwood &
Price, 2016, p2).
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7. EDEN SIG on TEL and Quality Enabled Learning
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8. QUALITY IN TEL ON MICRO, MESO AND
MACRO LEVEL, AND STAKEHOLDERS
INVOLVED • + 40 Quality Models on OER; MOOCs,
E-learning, Online learning
• Norm Based/Process based
• Quality Matrix
• Set of Characteristica
• Nature of quality interventions
• Perspectives stakeholders
• Maturity level
EDEN SIG on TEL and Quality Enabled Learning
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9. MICRO
LEVEL
MESO
LEVEL
MACRO
LEVEL
DIFFERENT LEVELS
Ossiannilsson et al., (2015). Quality Models in Online and Open Edcuation Around the Globe. State of the art. ICDE
Kirkwood and Price (2016). Technology Enabled Learning. Implementation Handbook. COL
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10. Norm based accreditation Process based enhancement
Accreditation, Certification, Benchmarking
NORMBASED VS PROCESSBASED
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11. Stakeholders
• Learners
• Academics
• Faculty
• Institutional
• Region
• Nation/Country
• International
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12. Duval, Sharples, and
Sutherland, (Eds.), 2017
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13. Kirkwood and Price (2016)
COL
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14. Questions?
• . Conflicts of interests:
• different levels
• among stakeholders
• formal vs informal learning
• 2. Renewing the quality
agenda for TEL
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15. CARING IS SHARING,
SHARING IS CARING
My Footprints
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