Accrediting Digital Education: Lessons from the Maltese Experience

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This document discusses lessons learned from accrediting digital education in Malta. It explains that trust in qualifications comes from being issued by respected institutions, with the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) being the base currency of learning in Europe. The Malta Qualifications Framework adapted the European Qualifications Framework to define different Maltese qualifications by factors like number of ECTS credits, learning outcomes, and level. It asserts that the best indicator of a quality qualification is a quality institution. The document provides an overview of the Maltese system and notes that true student choice requires trusted qualifications. It examines what makes digital education different, such as issues with assessment security, student identity verification, unbundling of education, and potential for

Accrediting Digital Education
Lessons from the Maltese Experience

Trust is about
Perception
Key Concepts
2

Recognition and Assessment
is impossible without a currency
Key Concepts
3

Currency is issued
by authorised and
respected institutions
Key Concepts
4

The base currency of learning in
Europe is ECTS
Key Concepts
5

7
European Qualifications
Framework
adapts
defines Malta Qualifications
Framework
Recipe for different
qualifications
# of
ECTS
learning
outcomes
level
Degrees
Diplomas
Specialisations
Certificates

Best Indicator of a Quality
Qualification
is a Quality Institution
Key Concepts
8

True student choice requires
trusted qualifications
Key Concepts
10

Quality teaching involves determing
fitness for purpose
Key Concepts
12

What is different about digital education?
assessment & are
untrusted
•Specify methods of
assessment security
•Specify methods of
ensuring student
identity
high level of
unbundling &
internationalisation
•Check the of all
staff involved:
design, delivery,
support
•No distinction
between
subcontractors and
provider institutions
easy to create
diploma mills
•only accredited
institutions may
offer qualifications
pegged to the
qualifications
framework
•Legal sanction for
those who peg it
badly
new pedagogies are
unproven
•expert group to
evaluate evidence
& provide
provisional licensing
under conditions if
possible
14

15
Looking Forward to the debate
Anthony F. Camilleri – anthony@knowledgeinnnovation.eu
http://www.slideshare.net/anthonycamilleri

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1. Accrediting Digital Education Lessons from the Maltese Experience

2. Trust is about Perception Key Concepts 2

3. Recognition and Assessment is impossible without a currency Key Concepts 3

4. Currency is issued by authorised and respected institutions Key Concepts 4

5. The base currency of learning in Europe is ECTS Key Concepts 5

6. ECTS 6

7. 7 European Qualifications Framework adapts defines Malta Qualifications Framework Recipe for different qualifications # of ECTS learning outcomes level Degrees Diplomas Specialisations Certificates

8. Best Indicator of a Quality Qualification is a Quality Institution Key Concepts 8

9. Overview of the Maltese System

10. True student choice requires trusted qualifications Key Concepts 10

11. Overview of the Maltese System

12. Quality teaching involves determing fitness for purpose Key Concepts 12

13. Overview of the Maltese System

14. What is different about digital education? assessment & are untrusted •Specify methods of assessment security •Specify methods of ensuring student identity high level of unbundling & internationalisation •Check the of all staff involved: design, delivery, support •No distinction between subcontractors and provider institutions easy to create diploma mills •only accredited institutions may offer qualifications pegged to the qualifications framework •Legal sanction for those who peg it badly new pedagogies are unproven •expert group to evaluate evidence & provide provisional licensing under conditions if possible 14

15. 15 Looking Forward to the debate Anthony F. Camilleri – anthony@knowledgeinnnovation.eu http://www.slideshare.net/anthonycamilleri

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