Delivered for the Et2020 wg on digital and online learning – Education e-material – Quality Assurance, Ljubljana

1. QUALITY ASSURANCE AND INNOVATIVE
EDUCATION
A PROVOCATIVE VISION FOR THE FUTURE AND CHALLENGE
ANTHONY F. CAMILLERI – KNOWLEDGE INNOVATION CENTRE
ET2020 WG ON DIGITAL AND ONLINE LEARNING – EDUCATION E-MATERIAL – QUALITY ASSURANCE
16TH SEPTEMBER 2015, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
CONNECTING FROM SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
KRASNOYARSK, RUSSIA

2. TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS
Ubiquitous Computing
access to computing
power any time
anywhere
Open Data
access to any
information any time
anywhere
Learning Analytics
ability to base teaching
decisions on data
Semantic Search
ability to talk and
converse with machines
Collaboration
Technologies
ability to collaborate with
anybody in real-time
Personalisation
Technologies
move away from
traditional massification
concepts

3. SOCIAL CHANGES MEAN INCREASED DEMANDS FROM
EDUCATION
 provide graduates to supply the
knowledge economy
 increase efficiency of processes
 extend reach of programmes
 adapt content to ever-
changing priorities
do
more,
better,
with

4. SELECTED TRENDS IN ONLINE,
OPEN AND FLEXIBLE HIGHER EDUCATION
Growing
Role of OER
Emergence
of Non-
Traditional
Providers
Mushrooming
of Diploma
Mills
Increasing
demand for
recognition &
portability
Open Data

5. GROWTH IN OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
April 2014:
3045 learning
repositories – 7%
growth year-on-year
with 12 million
learning objects
Source:
repository66.org
March 2015:
1139 European
MOOCs
220% Year-on-Year
Growth
Source:
openeducationeuropa.eu

6. POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIO 1
Teaching Performance will be calculated based
on reuse of their teaching materials
Teacher Pay will be determined by
‘fame’ of their products.

7. POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIO I1
Teaching Performance will include an ‘efficiency’
component:
How much material did you reuse and not have to
create?

8. EMERGENCE OF NON-TRADITIONAL PROVIDERS
‘Hybrid Providers’
mergers of HEIs and Technology
companies collaborating on
course provision, e.g. Coursera
Teaching &
Examination
Centres
teach HE level
qualifications using
licensed content from
universities
RPL Universities
institutions offering
recognition,
credentialisation and
add-on teaching for RPL
Exam-Only
Companies
designing and/or
providing examinations
(incl. automated
assessment)
Publishers
providing not only books
but online learning
communities

9. POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIOS
QA Agencies will
become sprawling
education
regulators
QA Agencies will
become
increasingly
irrelevant

10. MILLS ARE ON THE RISE
 Journals
 Conferences
 Courses
 Institutions
 Campuses
 Accreditation
FAKE

11. POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIO
Quality Assurance will become a
branch of law enforcement

12. INCREASED DEMAND FOR RECOGNITION
 Badges
 Certificates of
attendance
 Certificates of
completion
 ECTS
 Diplomas and
Degrees
easily mapped to
Qualifications Framework
Hard/Impossible to map to
Qualifications Framework

13. FUTURE SCENARIO
Quality Assurance of
Qualifications will
become widespread
(recognition & portability as elements
of quality)
Marketing of
Qualifications will
become linked to
Consumer Law

14. OPEN DATA & QUALITY
TECHNOLOGY GIVES RISE TO NEW EXPECTATIONS FROM THE QUALITY ECOSYSTEM
Assure Minimal
Quality
Standards
Offer Various
Ranking
Methodologies
Allow for User
Review and
Rating
Give Access to
Data

15. POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIO
Internal Quality Assurance will become
focused on metrics
External Quality Assurance will become
about verifying metrics

16. THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION
ANTHONY F. CAMILLERI
ANTHONY@KNOWLEDGEINNOVATIONEU
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