QA/QE in E-learning Special Interest Group

The QA-QE Special Interest Group is a group of practitioners, both academic and professional support staff, interested in using technology to enhance the quality of learning, teaching and assessment. Some institutions involved in the HEA/JISC e-learning Benchmarking & Pathfinder Programmes are collaborating in a Network Project (www.lkl.ac.uk/research/qa-elearning) which developed and ran a series of workshops in the area of QA/QE in e-learning. Several other institutions expressed in interest in working with the Network Project, and this led to the establishment of the Special Interest Group (SIG) in the area of QA/QE in the use of technology to support teaching and learning at a meeting in Reading in May 2008.  At that meeting, the SIG set up an interim steering group to further develop the 'mission statement' and organise the launch.

This practitioner-led SIG aims to invigorate QA-QE and make it relevant to everyday practice in enhancing teaching, learning and assessment through technology. Its objectives are:

• to share, aggregate, and synthesise practice in using technology to enhance the quality of learning,
• to share aggregate and synthesise good practice in quality assurance procedures relating to the use of technology in teaching, learning and assessment,
• to build synergies internally, between Higher Education Institutions and with other external sector agencies,
• to influence local and national policy.

The SIG has set out a year-long first phase of activities, ending in July 2009 after a review to determine the most useful actions for later work.  Initial outputs will include:

• Practical toolkits.
• Services e.g. workshops, sharing practice.
• Resources e.g. the community, knowledge-base, portal/wiki, published documents.

The Steering Group currently consists of:

Magdalena Jara	m.jara@ioe.ac.uk		Guy Saward	g.r.saward@herts.ac.uk
Tom Browne	T.J.Browne@exeter.ac.uk		Barbara Newland	BNewland@bournemouth.ac.uk
Eileen Webb	e.r.webb@tees.ac.uk		Judith Kuit	judith.kuit@sunderland.ac.uk
Patrick Lynch	P.Lynch@hull.ac.uk		Julian Priddle	Julian.Priddle@anglia.ac.uk;
Dave O'Hare	d.ohare@derby.ac.uk		Maria Papaefthimiou	m.c.papaefthimiou@reading.ac.uk

                                             

If you wish to be kept informed about the activities of the SIG, then please join the JISCmail list QA-QE SIG by going to www.jiscmail.ac.uk

More information on the QA-QE SIG, see also: www.qe-sig.net