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Executive Summary

1 Introduction

2 Context

3 Methodology

4 - 9 Findings, Analysis and Discussion

10 Summary of Findings

11 Discussion of Findings

12 References

13 Case Studies

Acknowledgments & Partners

 

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Institution H2

9 Impact of networked learning on quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation

Quality assurance issues were not raised to any extent in the interviews; however, the questionnaire data indicated that some initial evaluations of staff and student take up and experiences were taking place, although this was not carried out on a regular basis. References to this type of monitoring were also found in three interviews, but these were mainly connected with activities within the Business School.

We did a focus group with students, an evaluation, when we did the pilot study with the Business School. (H2I2A)

The rapid development process. It is being evaluated at the moment… (H2I2B)

… in the Business school they did quite an extensive evaluation on how [the VLE] was being used… (H2I2B)

One respondent spoke about the need for quality procedural changes for summative assessment.

We’re looking to make it change but I think it needs a lot of thought as to how we do it. At the moment I don’t think we have the infrastructure that would support it but we really need to see what to do for summative assessment. There are so many issues to consider what’s the best way of doing it?, What technology do we have to have to support it?, What sort of back up would we need to support it?, How is it assessed? Issues of plagiarism, of copying, all these things. How do you develop it? How do you make sure that you get really sound assessment techniques? All these things need to be looked at. (H2I2A)

Another respondent spoke more generally about the changes required and about the need for guidelines for e learning

… what the university did in terms of distance learning, was to adopt the QAA guidelines on distance learning as a university policy … but what we are also hoping to put in place is guidelines for e learning in its entirety….I’ve got quite high confidence that at the moment things are working well but if we don’t put something in place that is not ad hoc I think we could be exposed as the market expands as it were. (H2I6)

Summary

Quality assurance issues were not raised to any extent in the interviews; however, the questionnaire data suggested that some initial evaluations of staff and student take up had occurred. The need to adapt quality assurance procedures to address the requirements of online assessment was also recognised. Quality assurance procedures and the evaluation of the student experience were seen as requiring further development