Intervention in Global Ethics Forum on measurement and quality, raising ethical challenges and responses. Discussing quality, outcome and students role. Discussing Quality models and student success. Using Learning analytics as case.

1. Measurement and Quality
Higher Education Ethics in Action 23 – 25 June 2016, Geneva, Switzerland
Gard Titlestad, Secretary General
International Council for Open and Distance Education

2. What is ethics in action
when measuring quality
higher education?
Invitation for this conference to
deliver on Higher Education

3. ONLINE, OPEN, FLEXIBLE AND
TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED HIGHER AND
ADULT EDUCATION
ICDE Focus

4. Quality DE
• Distance Education – Quality? – 3 meta-studies (North)
• https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/29/online
• http://www.tonybates.ca/2013/08/20/a-review-of-the-heqco-
report-on-productivity-and-quality-in-online-learning-in-higher-
education/
• http://linkresearchlab.org/PreparingDigitalUniversity.pdf
• Meta-study US Department of Education (2009/2010):
– “students who took all or part of their instruction online
performed better, on average, than those taking the same
course through face-to-face instruction. Further, those
who took "blended" courses -- those that combine
elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction --
appeared to do best of all” (InsideHigherEd).

5. Example

7. • “There is sadly and shamefully a history in ODEL
of commercial motives conflicting with that sense
of responsibility, and too many recent instances
of institutions, in particular private for-profit
colleges, where admissions practice has not been
ethically and transparently managed, to the
severe detriment of the students who pay high
fees, and accumulate debt without the benefit of
qualification.”

8. • quality is defined:
– ...as methods that successfully help learners develop
the knowledge and skills they will require in a digital
age.
• The concept of a “quality e-learning system”
refers to
– “one in which the learner has a reasonable
opportunity for success in reaching their learning
goals”.

10. Outcome
• Retention
• Completion
• Learning outcome
• Degree
• Jobs......
• Salaries............

11. Ethics in action?
• Are students involved in quality?
• How?

12. Example:
Learning Analytics
• “Learning Analytics is the measurement,
collection, analysis and reporting of data
about learners and their contexts, for
purposes of understanding and optimising
learning and the environments in which it
occurs”
• Wikipedia, March 2016.

14. Mitt FitBit

15. Learning analytics
Technical infrastructure
https://www.surf.nl/en/knowledge-base/2016/whitepaper-how-data-can-improve-the-quality-of-higher-education.html
Mars 2016

16. Learning Analytics
Architecture: JISC
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/learning-analytics-in-higher-education

17. Example: Civita Degree map
https://www.civitaslearning.com/

18. Example: Civita Illume
https://www.civitaslearning.com/

19. http://www.policyconnect.org.uk/hec/research/report-bricks-clicks-potential-data-and-analytics-higher-education
The Open University,
UK, policy
The UK Higher
Education
Commission 2016

20. Do we need a
global code of
practice for
learning
analytics?

21. ”TOWARDS INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE
QUALITY EDUCATION AND LIFELONG
LEARNING FOR ALL”
Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030
THANK YOU
titlestad@icde.org
www.icde.org
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