Quality in E-Learning (European Weblog for E-Learning, Competence and more)

eLearning Lisbon Conference Reporting Video

uehlers — 2008-12-07T22:07:00Z

Auf der eLearning Conference in Lisbon, 15-16 OCT 2007 I had the pleasure to take over the reportig for the entire conference. 25 session rapporteurs were helping an we managed to distill the conference message. Here - after some time - the video stream. You have to forward wind to 8 minutes.

mms://vod.fccn.pt/umic/b-on/elearning/tarde_16_10_2007/debate_final.wmv

Bildungscontrolling als ein Mittel, Bildung wertzuschätzen

uehlers — 2008-12-07T21:32:00Z

SPECIAL:
Bildungscontrolling als ein Mittel, Bildung wertzuschätzen
Interview mit Dr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers - exklusiv bei LernQuotient.

Was ist Bildungscontrolling eigentlich? Wie hat sich Bildungscontrolling in den letzten Jahren verändert? Wie lässt sich firmeninternes Wissen bilanzieren? Welche Modelle eignen sich für Unternehmen, die Bildungscontrolling einführen möchten?

Diese und weitere Fragen beantwortet der Experte Dr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers im Interview mit LernQuotient.

Sie können den Podcast direkt auf unserer Webseite anhören (Dauer: 40:47 min). Wenn Sie gerade wenig Zeit haben, laden Sie sich einfach das PDF herunter.

http://www.lernquotient.de/leistungen-bildungscontrolling.html

Lernen am Laptop - Fokus Afrika

uehlers — 2008-11-27T20:23:00Z

Bildung für alle - das hatten sich die Vereinten Nationen vor acht Jahren vorgenommen. Bis 2015 wollten sie dieses Ziel erreichen. Die Realität sieht aber düster aus.

Mindestens 29 Millionen Kinder werden auch bis dahin keine Schule besuchen, heißt es im heute veröffentlichten Weltbildungsbericht der UNESCO. Große Hoffnungen auf bessere Bildungschancen hatte vor einigen Jahren der 100-Dollar-Laptop geweckt. Die Vision: Jedes Kind sollte einen Laptop bekommen und Zugang zum Internet haben. In Schwellen und Entwicklungsländern ein enormer Fortschritt. Aber wie sieht es heute damit aus? Wir haben mit Ulf Ehlers gesprochen. Er ist elearning-Experte an der Uni Duisburg-Essen.

Listen in!

Afro-European Science Initiative with new Name

uehlers — 2008-11-15T15:41:00Z

What used to be Science without Borders is now science connect. On its platform www.without-borders.org now almost 200 African and European scientists, students and researchers are networking for a better scientific cooperation!

Science Connect is constantly beta - but still has new exciting functions. Check out the "File Share". it is one of the first sites utilising the Open GoogleMaps to give everybody who is registered a pin on the worldmap.

Read: Education at a Glance 2008: OECD Indicators

uehlers — 2008-09-19T15:31:00Z

//from elearningeurpa.info//

(http://www.elearningeuropa.info/doc.php?doc_id=12438&doclng=6&from=nws&where=57&lng=de)
The indicators look at who participates in education, what is spent on it and how education systems operate and at the results achieved. The latter includes indicators on a wide range of outcomes,...

GMW Congress in Krems

uehlers — 2008-09-19T08:38:00Z

The GMW is the biggest professional organisation in Germany in the field of media and science and is focussing on the use of media for teaching and learning in higher education.

The 2008 GMW Congress in Krems (Austria) discussed the integration of social software into higher education. Robin Mason from the Open University UK pointed out the challenges this brings to universities, focussing on the organisation culture and the needed competences.

I was elected by the GMW general assemebly into the Board of directors of the GMW for a 3 year term.

www.gmw-online.de

ENQA Quality Standards

uehlers — 2007-11-12T12:20:00Z

http://www.bologna-bergen2005.no/Docs/00-Main_doc/050221_ENQA_report.pdf

Use and Distribution of Quality strategies in European E-Learning

uehlers — 2007-11-12T12:18:00Z

A survey by ulf Ehlers et al.

http://www2.trainingvillage.gr/etv/publication/download/panorama/5162_en.pdf

Interessante Bericht über den vergangenen Tagungsmarathon (von Michael Kerres)

uehlers — 2007-11-12T12:16:00Z

http://mediendidaktik.uni-duisburg-essen.de/node/4220

SEVAQ Conference in Brussels (24-09-2007)

uehlers — 2007-10-02T21:09:00Z

Today I was invited to give a keynote presentation in an international workshop in Brussels. The workshop was organised by the SEVAQ Project to present and discuss their final results. It was impressive to see the product which the project developped.

A completely online managable evaluation tool which allows multiple analysis and views on the data. It follows the concept of Kirckpatrick and combines it with the EFQM model. Very interesting - and online available.

The organisers also publishes a handbook on their software and ainvited me to write a preface for it.

Here it is:

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A CHANGING WOLRD OF QUALITY: MOVING FROM CONTROLL TO CULTURE

by Dr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers

E-Learning has many faces. It is not developing homogeneously in all European countries at the same pace but rather in a divers manner of different forms, of divers technologies, different pedagogical approaches, contents and objectives thus reflecting the interrelation between cultures and education in its whole. In the same manner, e-learning is also diffusing educational organisations in a quite different pace, developing different formats within them and taking over different functions, ranging from a catalyst for change of organisations and pedagogical processes on the far end to a mere add on information distribution tool on the other.

All the same it can be noted that e-learning has changed from its entrepeneurship and infancy stage to a more general offering in all educational sectors. More and more it is challenging educational settings, reforming and improving them, carrying the implicit promise of changing education for the better. Along with that it can be seen that many policies stress the potential of raising quality of education through the integration of knowledge, learning and information technologies. This quality promise, however, has failed to deliver on the large scale so far. Not through the fault of individuals, not willing to change their professional habits in education, a bad technology or insufficient content. The problem being rather that raising quality in education, through the introduction of technology, needs a total system approach, a systemic strategy. In the quality debate and in experts discussions, this change can be seen as a move from control-centred strategies to development oriented e-learning- and quality strategies, and furthermore a growing debate about a quality culture, focussing on values, attitudes and motivation of stakeholders, rather than only on indicators.

For these discussions, overarching approaches and strategies are needed in order to develop quality in a holistic way, taking into account organisational contexts and stakeholders in a participatory way. Not one golden path of quality development, not one single common set of criteria can then anymore be applied to all situations and organisations alike but a constant effort, striving for improvement has to be made in organisations. All groups of stakeholders are addressed to play their part in this process: teachers, administrators, managers and also learners have to become conscious of the role they play for successful quality improvement. In this view, quality is about professionalisation of teaching, enabling of learning, participative management and recognition of achievements. It is important to recognise that quality strategies for e-learning therefore need to be very much adapted to the organisational reality and can not simply be developed according to the paradigm one size fits all.

In this publication, the SEVAQ project takes this angle and develops concepts and tools which enable stakeholders to build support tools for a holistic evaluation and quality development process. The project has merged two widespread concepts, a systematic evaluation approach which has been tried out with much success in the field of education and training the four level evaluation approach of Kirkpatrick, and a holistic approach for organisational quality development the quality model of the European Foundation for Quality Management.

WINDS Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2-10-2007)

uehlers — 2007-10-02T21:02:00Z

Today I gave a presentation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where we organised a regional research conference in the frame ofthe WINDS-LA project which I am currently working on. The conference has the aim to disseminate the opportunities of the European Commsissions FP 7 Framework Porgram to researchers in the field of ICT. I had the challenge to inform where to find partners for eLearning projects in Europe. Thinking about it I thought that the best information can be found in the existing portal and the networks of excellence:

- eLearningeuropa.info Portal for eLearning in Europe (Projects, Actors, Information)
- ProLearn Network of Excelence for professional Learning
- Kaleidoskop Network of Excelence for Science and Education
- MichaelPlus Repository of digital resources

In addition, I reported about our experience to establish a Foundation in order to make a project sustainable (www.qualityfoundation.org).

Villach: Keynote and IELA (SEPT 24-27, 2007)

uehlers — 2007-10-02T17:45:00Z

I was invited to give a keynote in Vilach at the ICL 2007 Conference. I talked about innovation management, learning and quality: "Competencies for Achieving high Quality in E-Learning". Which professional competencies do we need to teach and learn in a high quality way?

I was combining the concept of quality with innovation, and made the analogy with the concept of a perpetual beta state of education, like Google does it with their search engines. the conference inspried me to a new article on the topic which I started authoring now.

Aside from the conference also the Internaional E-Learning Association was launched and the initiators invited me to join the scientific advisory board. IELA.

Next year the ICL will tak eplace in Amman, Jordan.

Plazes shows where I am...

uehlers — 2007-09-27T17:10:00Z

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ICT in Higher Education

uehlers — 2007-09-21T17:46:00Z

Excellent Article about ICT policies for Higher education, context is South Africa, but article takes into account international development and viewpoints.

Highly Recommende: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hep/journal/v20/n1/full/8300144a.html

E-Assessment! (in 2016)

uehlers — 2007-09-21T17:10:00Z

Cool article, showing a scenario between 2006 and 2016.
http://forschung.pruefung.net/?p=131