This document summarizes the objectives and work of the Open Virtual Mobility Erasmus+ project. The project aims to (1) enhance uptake of open virtual mobility by improving skills of educators and students, (2) create a European OpenVM Learning Hub for skills achievement, assessment and recognition, and (3) develop innovative tools and methods for skills assessment and recognition. The project is working on designing quality assurance standards, processes, and instruments for the Learning Hub and its components using a design-based research approach. An evaluation of the quality assurance strategy was conducted with partners and external experts.

1. Disclaimer: The creation of these resources has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under
grant no. 2017-1-DE01-KA203-003494. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible
for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.
QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR ATTAINMENT,
ASSESSMENT AND RECOGNITION OF VIRTUAL
MOBILITY SKILLS IN CONTEXT OF OPEN EDUCATIONl
Ilona Buchem, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Gemma Tur, Santos Urbina, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
2-3 July 2018
Palma, Spain

2. Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership (2017 - 2020)
http://www.openvirtualmobility.eu

3. What is virtual mobility?
Virtual mobility creates accessible, flexible, scalable and cost-
effective solutions for all types of curricula, especially in
collaborative curricula. (…) Essential elements (of VM) are:
• an institutional agreement
• a course catalogue with pre-assessed and recognised
online courses or learning activities
• a student application form
• a learning agreement
• transcript of records
Ubachs, G., & Henderikx, P. (2018). EADTU Mobility Matrix, (pp. 26). Maastricht, NL: EADTU.

4. How does VM work in practice?
Ubachs, G., & Henderikx, P. (2018). EADTU Mobility Matrix, (pp. 26). Maastricht, NL: EADTU.

5. Objectives
1. Enhance the uptake of Open Virtual Mobility by
improving VM skills of educators and students.
2. Create a European OpenVM Learning Hub for
achievement, assessment and recognition of VM skills.
3. Develop a set of innovative tools and methods to
enhance achievement, assessment and recognition of
VM skills.

6. What are we working on?

7. Quality Assurance Framework
DESIGN BASED RESEARCH
(McKenney & Reeves, 2012)

8. Quality Assurance Framework

9. What are we working on?
• (1) Design of QA standards for the VM Learning Hub and its components
(such as collaborative learning activities for OER co-design, algorithmic
mechanism for group formation in the VM MOOC, e-assessment and
recognition of VM skills with open credentials such as Open Badges and
Blockcerts);
• (2) Design of QA processes for linking and integrating quality standards
to all stages of development of intellectual outputs, e. g. by applying
effective design and development methodology such as quality-driven
agile development, peer-reviews of iterations and final outcomes as well
as quality implementation process and corrective actions.
• (3) Design of QA instruments for quality assessment of teamwork (such
as bi-monthly assessments) based on a set of qualitative and quantitative
radiators (indicators) such as mood, agility, congruence and velocity.
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10. What are we working on?
Objectives Instruments
Design of QA standards
QA standards are based on:
ENQA recommendations ESG Standards and Guidelines for QA Quality
Assessment for E-learning
OpenEdu Framework
Virtual Mobility Matrix by EADTU
Guidelines by Jansen, Rosewell and Kear
Design of QA processes
QA processes are based on DBR cycles for peer-reviews of outcomes:
1) Assessment by partners (internal)
2) After improvement 2nd assessment by external experts.
3) After improvement 3rd assessment by pilot users
Design of QA instruments
QA instruments include:
1) Bi-monthly online partner survey (internal)
2) Evaluation by external experts
3) User testing (pilot users)

11. Evaluation of the QA strategy
7 experts: 4
internal & 3
external
Online survey
3 criteria:
relevance,
appropriateness,
feasibility
Likert scale
Open questions

12. Results

13. Results

14. Conclusions
Iterative
process of
DBR
Workload
and time-
consuming
task

15. Disclaimer: The creation of these resources has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under
grant no. 2017-1-DE01-KA203-003494. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible
for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.
EDULEARN CONFERENCE 2018, PALMA , BALEARIC ISLANDS (SPAIN)
Ilona Buchem @mediendidaktik
Gemma Tur @gemturfer
Santos Urbina @santosurbina
THANKS!
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