Accrediting Digital Education

Lessons from the Maltese Experience

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Trust is about Perception

Key Concepts

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Recognition and Assessment is impossible without a

currency

Key Concepts

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Currency is issuedby authorised and

respected institutions

Key Concepts

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The base currency of learning in Europe is ECTS

Key Concepts

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ECTS

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European QualificationsFramework

adapts

defines Malta QualificationsFramework

Recipe for different qualifications

# ofECTS

learningoutcomes

level

DegreesDiplomas

SpecialisationsCertificates

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Best Indicator of a Quality Qualification

is a Quality Institution

Key Concepts

Overview of the Maltese System

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True student choice requirestrusted qualifications

Key Concepts

Overview of the Maltese System

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Quality teaching involves determing

fitness for purpose

Key Concepts

Overview of the Maltese System

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What is different about digital education?

assessment & are untrusted

• Specify methods of assessment security

• Specify methods of ensuring student identity

high level of unbundling &

internationalisation

• Check the of all staff involved: design, delivery, support

• No distinction between subcontractors and provider institutions

easy to create diploma mills

• only accredited institutions may offer qualifications pegged to the qualifications framework

• Legal sanction for those who peg it badly

new pedagogies are unproven

• expert group to evaluate evidence & provide provisional licensing under conditions if possible

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Looking Forward to the debate

Anthony F. Camilleri – anthony@knowledgeinnnovation.eu http://www.slideshare.net/anthonycamilleri