Slides from the launch of the final report from our QAA Collaborative Enhancement project, 'When Quality Assurance Meets Innovation in Higher Education'
14 May 2024
1) Introduction to the Open University,and why we need to continue to build our change capability
2) What we're doing and how we're doing it
3) Challenges and opportunities: now and in the future
More information on leaders wanting to build an organization culture for analytics. Participants will learn where to start and how to prioritize implementation of analytics initiatives.
This breakout session was hosted at the Civitas Learning 2015 Winter Summit, by Dr. Linda Baer and Dr. Mark Milliron.
Effective Creation, Mediation and Use of Knowledge in and about Education.EduSkills OECD
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The Center for Innovation in Education and Next Generation Learning Challenges invite applications to the Assessment for Learning Project. The grants will support educators to fundamentally rethink the core role(s) that assessment can play to support student attainment of deeper learning. Nearly $2 million is available for 12-15 grants. Applications are due December 10, 2015. This presentation was used in webinars on November 4 and November 12, 2015 to provide an overview of the grant opportunity to prospective applicants and respond to their questions.
1) Introduction to the Open University,and why we need to continue to build our change capability
2) What we're doing and how we're doing it
3) Challenges and opportunities: now and in the future
More information on leaders wanting to build an organization culture for analytics. Participants will learn where to start and how to prioritize implementation of analytics initiatives.
This breakout session was hosted at the Civitas Learning 2015 Winter Summit, by Dr. Linda Baer and Dr. Mark Milliron.
Effective Creation, Mediation and Use of Knowledge in and about Education.EduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Philippa Cordingley from the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE) at the CERI Conference on Innovation, Governance and Reform in Education on 3 November 2014 during session 3.a: Knowledge-intensive Governance, Innovation and Change.
The Center for Innovation in Education and Next Generation Learning Challenges invite applications to the Assessment for Learning Project. The grants will support educators to fundamentally rethink the core role(s) that assessment can play to support student attainment of deeper learning. Nearly $2 million is available for 12-15 grants. Applications are due December 10, 2015. This presentation was used in webinars on November 4 and November 12, 2015 to provide an overview of the grant opportunity to prospective applicants and respond to their questions.
Are you future ready? Preparing students for living and working in a digital ...Jisc
Many colleges and universities recognise they need to adopt a whole-institution approach to equip students with the skills, confidence and experience they need for the modern workplace.Technology is critical in helping students to develop and communicate these skills, but are universities and colleges making best use of it?
In this session we will explore what employers are really looking for; and how a university and college are using innovative approaches to best preparing their students to meet those needs.
Faculty survey results and interviews with senior decision makers leading their institutions’ MOOC strategies:
What were the original motivations behind your MOOC strategy? How have your motivations evolved after some experience with MOOCs? How are you measuring the success of your MOOC strategy? What lessons and best practices have emerged from your experience with MOOCs? What are your plans to expand the use of MOOCs? What advice would you give to other senior leaders considering a MOOC strategy?
Factors impacting the success in increasing adoption - Bill Ashraf, Strategic...Blackboard APAC
Institutions recognise how new technology can enhance the learning and teaching experience for staff and students. Increasingly they are looking to technology to support them in achieving their strategic goals. However, there are a range of obstacles to the adoption of technology that institutions must overcome. Change of any kind is daunting, particularly when dealing with long-established methods and systems. Success depends on shifting entrenched culture and attitudes. Join us as Bill shares practical tips, ideas, resources and real-life examples. We've built the story around six key characteristics required of a successful adoption project.
Delivered at Innovate and Educate: Teaching and Learning Conference by Blackboard. 24 -27 August 2015 in Adelaide, Australia.
personal perspectives, opportunities and dilemmas of an academic developer
27 May 2013 Centre for Medical Education, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
invited seminar
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GAIHE Survey Report Results, by Andrew Gibson & Ellen Hazelkorngaihe
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This deck, prepared for the Foundation Review, shares findings from the Funder & Evaluator Affinity Network regarding root causes that impede evaluation's influence in philanthropy as well as what network members are doing to address this. More information can be found in the article: Evaluators as Conduits and Supports for Foundation Learning. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/tfr/vol11/iss1/11/
From Quality Assurance to Quality Enhancement (2006)JamesDunphy
Presentation given jointly - with David Lines - to the Heads of Educational Development Group in 2006 on the shift from Quality Assurance to Quality Enhancement within Scottish Higher Education
Essential Role of Adjuncts Role of Adjuncts in OER Adoption and DegreesUna Daly
Faculty involvement is critical to the sustainability of OER adoption and degree pathways. More than half of courses at community colleges taught by adjunct faculty and institutional reliance on this faculty pool is growing. It is essential to devise scalable strategies for integrating adjuncts into this transformative work to improve student success.
Join us for this webinar to hear how adjunct faculty can participate and be acknowledged for the essential role that they are playing in developing OER degree pathways at many colleges. Findings and emerging strategies from Achieving the Dream’s Engaging Adjunct Faculty program will be explored with the program director. Dean of Information Technology and an adjunct faculty member at Broward College, an OER Degree Initiative grantee, will share how adjunct faculty have been involved in the development and teaching of their Business Administration OER degree pathway.
When: Wednesday, Dec 6th 11am PT/ 2pm ET
Featured Speakers:
Jon Iuzzini: Associate Director, Adjunct Faculty Initiative, Achieving the Dream
Tom Ayers: Dean of Information Technology, Broward College
Claudine Dulaney: Adjunct Business Faculty, Broward College
Quality Assurance and Innovation: Case Studies of Massive Open Online Courses...FutureLearn FLAN
Presented by Ahmed Al-Imarah of the University of Bath at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK on 15 June 2017. This presentation formed part of the FutureLearn Academic Network section (FLAN Day) of the 38th Computers and Learning Research Group (CALRG) conference. For full details, see http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/3004
Are you future ready? Preparing students for living and working in a digital ...Jisc
Many colleges and universities recognise they need to adopt a whole-institution approach to equip students with the skills, confidence and experience they need for the modern workplace.Technology is critical in helping students to develop and communicate these skills, but are universities and colleges making best use of it?
In this session we will explore what employers are really looking for; and how a university and college are using innovative approaches to best preparing their students to meet those needs.
Faculty survey results and interviews with senior decision makers leading their institutions’ MOOC strategies:
What were the original motivations behind your MOOC strategy? How have your motivations evolved after some experience with MOOCs? How are you measuring the success of your MOOC strategy? What lessons and best practices have emerged from your experience with MOOCs? What are your plans to expand the use of MOOCs? What advice would you give to other senior leaders considering a MOOC strategy?
Factors impacting the success in increasing adoption - Bill Ashraf, Strategic...Blackboard APAC
Institutions recognise how new technology can enhance the learning and teaching experience for staff and students. Increasingly they are looking to technology to support them in achieving their strategic goals. However, there are a range of obstacles to the adoption of technology that institutions must overcome. Change of any kind is daunting, particularly when dealing with long-established methods and systems. Success depends on shifting entrenched culture and attitudes. Join us as Bill shares practical tips, ideas, resources and real-life examples. We've built the story around six key characteristics required of a successful adoption project.
Delivered at Innovate and Educate: Teaching and Learning Conference by Blackboard. 24 -27 August 2015 in Adelaide, Australia.
personal perspectives, opportunities and dilemmas of an academic developer
27 May 2013 Centre for Medical Education, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
invited seminar
Presentation of a paper at the ASCILITE Conference, discussing how we need to share the findings of failed research, so we can learn from other's mistakes. The full paper may be found at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311108135_Failing_forward_in_research_around_technology_enhanced_learning
GAIHE Survey Report Results, by Andrew Gibson & Ellen Hazelkorngaihe
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This deck, prepared for the Foundation Review, shares findings from the Funder & Evaluator Affinity Network regarding root causes that impede evaluation's influence in philanthropy as well as what network members are doing to address this. More information can be found in the article: Evaluators as Conduits and Supports for Foundation Learning. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/tfr/vol11/iss1/11/
From Quality Assurance to Quality Enhancement (2006)JamesDunphy
Presentation given jointly - with David Lines - to the Heads of Educational Development Group in 2006 on the shift from Quality Assurance to Quality Enhancement within Scottish Higher Education
Essential Role of Adjuncts Role of Adjuncts in OER Adoption and DegreesUna Daly
Faculty involvement is critical to the sustainability of OER adoption and degree pathways. More than half of courses at community colleges taught by adjunct faculty and institutional reliance on this faculty pool is growing. It is essential to devise scalable strategies for integrating adjuncts into this transformative work to improve student success.
Join us for this webinar to hear how adjunct faculty can participate and be acknowledged for the essential role that they are playing in developing OER degree pathways at many colleges. Findings and emerging strategies from Achieving the Dream’s Engaging Adjunct Faculty program will be explored with the program director. Dean of Information Technology and an adjunct faculty member at Broward College, an OER Degree Initiative grantee, will share how adjunct faculty have been involved in the development and teaching of their Business Administration OER degree pathway.
When: Wednesday, Dec 6th 11am PT/ 2pm ET
Featured Speakers:
Jon Iuzzini: Associate Director, Adjunct Faculty Initiative, Achieving the Dream
Tom Ayers: Dean of Information Technology, Broward College
Claudine Dulaney: Adjunct Business Faculty, Broward College
Quality Assurance and Innovation: Case Studies of Massive Open Online Courses...FutureLearn FLAN
Presented by Ahmed Al-Imarah of the University of Bath at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK on 15 June 2017. This presentation formed part of the FutureLearn Academic Network section (FLAN Day) of the 38th Computers and Learning Research Group (CALRG) conference. For full details, see http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/3004
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Slides from webinars for our QAA Collaborative Enhancement Project, exploring the interation of quality assurance and innovation in higher education.
Webinars: 10 & 12 October 2023
Slides from workshop delivered at the Association for National Teaching Fellows' Annual Symposium, De Montford University, 20 April 2023.
Abstract:
The New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering is a new HEI. We’re a positive disrupter, challenging norms in university-level education by using and testing innovative new approaches, particularly in learning, teaching and widening access, to address the shortfall in numbers of engineering graduates in the UK. Part of NMITE’s mission is to share good practice and learning with the sector. This workshop will provide an overview of NMITE’s pedagogical innovations, and will facilitate a discussion with peers about the enablers and barriers to innovation and ways to overcome them. The session will facilitate good practice sharing and the chance for you to seek peer support and learn from new models to address challenges within your own institution. It will thus empower you to act as a more effective change agent, driving forward your NTF/CATE innovative practice. We will conclude with an opportunity for colleagues to feed into a QAA enhancement project, which the presenters are currently leading, to explore the interaction of innovation and quality assurance in HE.
The Power of LinkedIn: Building Your Profile & Leveraging ConnectionsGary Wood
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Learn how to create a strong, effective profile on LinkedIn, use it to build and engage a network, and to find and make opportunities.
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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When Quality Assurance Meets Innovation in Higher Education - Report launch webinar
1. When Quality Assurance Meets
Innovation in Higher Education
A QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Project
Final Report Launch
14 May 2024
2. The context in which we operate
• Ethos of new public management and marketisation
• Made explicit in HERA 2017
• Increasing and diversifying provider base in England – ‘high-quality disruption’
• Divergences in regulatory approach
• OfS, DFENI, HEFCW, SFC
• Accelerating technological disruption
• COVID-19 and the ‘online pivot’
• AI, used by students and providers
• Data capture and prediction
• Adverse financial outlook
• Tuition fees declining in real terms
• Less welcome environment for international students
• Rising cost of living.
3. Raised some interesting questions…
• Is there a conflict – or at least a tension – between QA and innovation?
• Under what conditions does QA best support innovation?
• Do new providers ‘do’ quality differently?
4. Methodology
• Literature review
• How is quality assured, and how is QA perceived?
• What does ‘innovation’ mean in this context?
• Does QA inhibit or support innovation?
• Is technology driving change in QA practices?
• Survey exploring experiences of innovation and QA amongst UK higher education professionals
(n=176)
• What is driving innovation in HE?
• Which QA domains most impact/most positively impact innovation?
• Six focus groups (n=25)
• How do QA and innovation interact?
• How might QA better support innovation?
• Case studies of innovation and QA (n=6).
5. Literature review themes
• Embedding a student-as-consumer lens has made innovation more difficult
• Increasing QA influence is received negatively (and with resistance) by academics
• Innovation less likely to be successful when it is externally-driven (top-down?) and active QA –
associated with reduced agency and creativity
• COVID-19 stimulated innovation in L&T practice and in QA practice; the latter has not been routinely
leveraged by universities
• Mistrust between academics and administrators both a root cause and an outcome of contemporary
higher education.
6. Survey themes – QA an established
but ambivalent role
• Participants fairly evenly spread across QA, academic, enhancement and development,
professional services
• Almost 2/3 participants describe QA as being hybrid local/centralised, and more than a quarter in
fully centralised
• Good understanding that QA is an integral part of HE: vast majority participants across all functions
consider themselves as having responsibility for both assuring and enhancing quality
• Ambivalent story as to whether QA supports innovation and whether QA is responsive. In the
context of innovative practice, QA is a facilitator, a gatekeeper, and a distractor.
7. Survey themes – innovation in L&T
and in QA
• Most significant source of L&T innovation is incremental – ongoing reflection and refinement by
module leaders. New modes of delivery and new courses also important catalysts of innovation
• Most commonly reported motivators for innovation are student centred: improving student
satisfaction, promoting inclusivity, and to meet the needs of a changing student body
• Quality assurance domains with biggest impact on innovation are both top-down and bottom-up:
learning & teaching strategies, transformation strategies, capability of staff members
• Survey respondents reported that COVID-19 led to simplified processes and fast-track decision-
making, and 2/3 reported that at least some of these process changes had been retained. 3/4
respondents using data and learning analytics as part of QA/enhancement.
8. Focus Groups – different worlds but
shared passion?
• Reflected on the extent to which L&T innovation could be managed strategically, given that it relied
on individual creativity, capability and capacity
• QA staff identified as being in the middle of employer-driven, student-driven and staff-driven
innovation
• Financial context is impacting support for innovation and the need for it to be well-focussed,
• “...you can have the best, most interesting idea, but if it’s not going to make money it’s not going to happen … and lots of
great ideas don’t make money”
• Academic reputation is on the line, as well as their wellbeing and ability to stay fresh
• QA/enhancement can empower academics: importance of supporting innovation
champions and myth-busting
• Huge amount of passion, commitment and enthusiasm to do thing better.
9. Focus Groups – need for a reset?
• QA colleagues themselves described the combination of busy people and lots of (admittedly often
‘archaic’) paperwork as being one of the reasons creativity can be stifled
• Vicious circle - QA colleagues can be too absorbed in the nitty-gritty, but even when they try to lift
their heads and be more strategic in supporting innovation, get pulled back in responding to
academic wanting to change fields on forms
• QA described needing to ‘reset’ their relationship with academics – BUT many ‘things you can't do’
can be folklore and myth
• Encouraging academic colleagues to engage QA early enough, and to make evidence-based
proposals
• Some providers moving towards multi-functional teams in portfolio development. Layers,
levels and silos reduce agility and increase people being in their own bubble.
10. Calls to action
• Appropriately resourced and empowered QA teams who are intimately connected with
academic innovation through carefully thought-out structures and processes
• Leaders and colleagues must harness the passion for high-quality innovative practice that we have
affirmed exists in their institutions. We have shown that QA can be agile and innovative in itself –
build on this.