A Critique of the Proposed National Education Policy Reform
CONCEDE - Parallel Session on User Generated Content
1. QUALITY ASSURANCE OF USER GENERATED CONTENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION Thomas Kretschmer Institute for Innovation in Learning (ILI/FIM) Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (GERMANY) Marcelo Maina Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (SPAIN)
5. Changing faces of e-Learning From Distribution… … to Collaboration and Reflection Transmissive Learning Expansive Learning Learning Management Systems Materials online Presentation Information E-Portfolios Weblogs Communication Collaboration WiKis Communities
14. Methods of quality development for eLearning 2.0 (Ehlers 2009) Methods of quality development Quality assessment by Self-evaluation Learners with the help of/ feedback by teachers Assessment of e-portfolios Teachers Social recommendation Peers, learning communities Evaluations aimed at target group Teachers
15. The CONCEDE quality framework (www.concede.cc) Quality Procedures of LEARNERS (discussed through peer reviews, comments and rating) INSTITUTIONAL Quality Procedures (primarily represented by teachers) Dialogue & Negotiation
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Editor's Notes
The CONCEDE multi-layered quality framework is described below. 1. A first level of quality assurance is based on users’ comments, reviews and ratings in relation to a learning experience taking place within one HE institution. This is a bottom up process, since users decide on whatever grounds they prefer whether a UGC is relevant to their needs. This can be done by letting users rate or comment on the UGC or describe how they have used it. The argument for such an approach would be that quality is not an inherent part of an UGC but contextual. It is only the specific learning situation that determines whether a UGC is useful or not, and therefore the user should be the judge. Moreover, in this way UGC is viewed through various “lenses”, such as professional societies, universities, school boards, publishers, colleagues and peers, and various “criteria”: most popular content, most linked, highest user ratings, and learning assessment rating (OECD, 2007, Giving knowledge for free: the emergence of open educational resources). Users reviews will be linked to their e-portfolios (linked in; social network…), so that peers will be able to contextualise their judgement and reviews. In this way it will be possible to link narrative elements of content creators to UGC: the assumption is that UGC must not be anonymous. A 2.0 environment will be prompted for hosting this process. 2. A second layer of quality assurance is based on institutional quality procedures undertaken by universities. Institutions most probably use internal quality checks and procedures before integrating UGC into learning provisions. Teachers are the main actors of this level. This could be considered a top down process. The third layer is dialogue and negotiations among the representatives of these two levels of quality assurance (i.e. teachers and learners) in order to reach a consensus which determine a synthesis of both layers described above. Dialogue and exchange of practices will take place both in presence and through the ad hoc learning environment