E-learning course: Evaluation and Quality Assurance in education and training

Scope

To provide the necessary skills and competencies to managing, administrating and teaching staff of schools, so as to ensure the quality and the effective evaluation of education at all levels. The course will provide insight at the developments at European level as well as at quality assurance and evaluation methodologies applied in education. 

ECVET points: 3.5

Target groups

Staff at all types of education and training organizations: 

• Directors / headmasters 
• Quality managers 
• Quality inspectors / evaluators 
• Administrative staff 
• Teachers / trainers 

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the training course, the participant is expected to: 

• Understand the European quality assurance policies in education and training 
• Be able to select the most appropriate quality assurance framework 

• Design the evaluation framework for school evaluation and/or project evaluation 
• Develop evaluation methods and tools 
• Conduct the evaluation, analyse evaluation findings and use the results 

Educational material

Individual codes for 24/7 access to online educational material for self-learning education.  

The learning material consists of videos, activities and plenty of resources collected either from online platforms or bibliography. There are parts with instructions and guidelines. Materials are in English language. 

Methodology

5 weeks e-learning, one week for each thematic unit: 

• Quality: introduction, concepts and policies 
• Quality assurance frameworks and standards 
• The ISO standards in Education and Training 
• Design the evaluation framework 
• Data collection, analysis and use of results 

The e-learning course is asynchronous. Each thematic unit contains series of videos explaining the theoretical part of the unit. Different types of activities motivate learners to assess their skills and competencies and realise whether they have consolidated the learning material or not. All exercises are mandatory and above 80% is considered a passing score. 

The course instructors will also send individual feedback for the exercises. 

Instructor

The course is purely e-learning, however the course instructors are available to answer your questions and unravel concepts, if necessary.  

Evaluation

The assessment is done through a series of tasks and exercises, which the learner is asked to complete from home.  

Certificate

Upon successful completion of the program, a 30-hour equivalent Certificate of Completion will be issued. The certificate of completion of the course will be granted based on the sum of scores of all mandatory exercises that are included in all training modules. 

Duration

Five calendar weeks. Starting on the first day of each month.