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Conference Scope of the EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2010 |
 Brussels (BE), July 2010 - Prof. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers,
Vice-President of EFQUEL and chair of the EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2010
program committee, is inviting interested practitioners, researchers and
policy makers in Europe to take part in a special conference on opening
education and quality. In his public invitation letter, he proposes an
overall vision for quality education and ways to meet the EFQUEL
objectives at the individual, organizational, and societal levels.
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| Specific Phenomenon |
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Open Educational Practices Lead to Quality in Education |
 Milton Keynes (UK), July
2010 - There is an inherent connection between opening educational
practices and quality of education. In the recent debates about the
quality of OER and eLearning content in general, a structural problem
becomes apparent. In many approaches, educational resources are evaluated
and judged separately from their intended use, e.g. through certification
or criteria-based approaches.
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| EFQM and Kirkpatrick |
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Self-evaluation for Quality Development |
 Nancy (FR), July 2010 -
Self-evaluation is part of internal quality assurance: the process of
reviewing the quality of one’s own performance and provision. According to
the EFQM definition, self-evaluation or self-assessment refers to a
comprehensive, systematic, and regular review of an organization's
activities and results referenced against the EFQM model. The
self-assessment process allows the organization to discern its strengths
clearly and areas in which improvements can be made. It culminates in
planned improvement actions, which are then monitored for progress.
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| Change Issues |
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The Readiness of Traditional Universities for Quality |
 Brussels (BE), July 2010
- Traditional universities have been more than slow in integrating ICT in
their teaching and learning. The reasons for this are linked to strategic
and organizational change issues rather than technological or budgetary
ones. Successful eLearning indeed requires new organizational and
pedagogical models. This conflicts with the historical model that has
shaped the culture of our traditional universities.
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| Quality Assurance |
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User-Generated Content in Higher Education |
 Erlangen (GER), July 2010
- Very much due to its success, user-generated content (UGC) poses a number
of challenges to the current understanding of education and its
institutions. Web2.0 and the corresponding tools enable learners to
develop and publish learning content independently from experts' knowledge
and institutional frameworks. This development has led to questions as to
whether the traditional concept of "authority" is still appropriate at
universities and to suggestions for the "ivory tower" of higher education
to be opened to the wider world.
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| Intrinisic Motivation |
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Game-based Learning for Quality Education in Schools |
 Graz (AT), July 2010 -
Can learning be fun? Many people would not agree with this hypothesis
since they remember their own educational history, which involved
investing a lot of effort to pass exams in school and university. On the
contrary, learning is often perceived as an exercise in getting results in
the form of a certification – and for this reason, extrinsic motivation
strongly dominates most of the learning process in primary and secondary
education, at the university level, and even in vocational education and
training.
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