Date: 24thFebruary, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM – 16:00 PM UAE Time
08:00 AM – 12:00 PM GMT Time
4 Hours Webinar
Webinar Fee:
115 USD Early Bird for registrations fully completed prior to 25th January, 2022
150 USD for registrations after 25th January, 2022
Overview
The pandemic has intensified the use of online education; despite some of the challenges associated with the delivery of online learning, the HE community has come to appreciate the many benefits online education can offer when properly designed and delivered. Most importantly, recent advances in technological capability and teaching methods now mean that the online programs can deliver a high quality, engaging student experience – even in programs with practical components.
This webinar will focus on determining what academic standards are for both traditional and online learning models and how quality assurance of online learning at the system as well as at the institutional level (external and internal QA) can be achieved.
Webinar Objectives
By the end of the webinar participants will:
- Understand what constitute academic standards and how these are assured in different contexts
- Differentiate between assuring the quality of traditional pedagogic models and those of online and distance learning models
- Consider various models of quality assurance of online education to inform changes/ finetuning of their existing internal quality assurance systems
- Gain a shared understanding of academic standards they must consider within institutions for online delivery
- Exchange ideas and practices around how higher education institutions are ensuring quality of academic standards for online and distance learning models
Key Topics
- What are academic standards?
- Key issues for the quality assurance of online education
- How are academic standards quality assured in the UK
- External quality assurance
- Internal quality assurance
- How are academic standards and quality assured across the Gulf and MENA Region?
- Different models for non-traditional delivery
- Considering and sharing examples of approaches of higher education institutions to internal quality assurance of academic standards
- Approaches to traditional pedagogic models of learning
- Approaches to online and distance learning models (i.e. digital pedagogies and assuring academic standards)
Who is this Webinar for?
The webinar is relevant to anyone involved in delivering or overseeing online learning including:
- Vice Presidents, Deans and Managers of QA and institutional effectiveness officers
- QA staff
- Deans of Colleges and Heads of Academic Departments
Dr. Alison Felce
Piers Walle
Dr. Narimane Hadj Hamou