Anthony Cammilleri presented UNIQUe and HEXTLEARN at the Moscow Education Online 2010.

1. UNIQUE & Hextlearn: European
Models for ICT Accreditation of
HEIs in Russia
Anthony F. Camilleri
European Foundation
for Quality in e-Learning

2. Myths in Technology
Enhanced Learning
• Distance Learning and self-learning will
make the university obsolete
• Peer Production means that there is no
more role for experts
• Democratised lnfomation makes much
learning irrelevant
• E = quality

3. The reality today
• Technology is at the foundation of the
knowledge economy
• E-learning has vastly increased the
inventory of tools offered by HEIs
• Today‘s graduates need knowledge-
competences not information
• Much of E is bad
• HEIs need to innovate to remainHEIs need to innovate to remain
relevantrelevant

4. How to Adapt?
• Embrace technology within learningEmbrace technology within learning
content, delivery and evaluationcontent, delivery and evaluation
• Globalise to remain on the leadingGlobalise to remain on the leading
edgeedge
• Differentiate yourself by achievingDifferentiate yourself by achieving
excellenceexcellence

5. Introducing

6. A TEL Quality System for
HEIs
Together, UNIQUE and HEXTLEARN provide:
•a methodology for implementing HE system-wide
throughout institutions
•access to world-class expertise in the field of TEL
management and implementation
•Sustained support beyond simple reviews
•recognition and accreditation for institutions who
have completed the process
•continually evolving criteria and standards

7. What is a TE-Institution?
• Traditional HEI on a single site
• Traditional HEI, with sites which are
geographically separated
• Group of independent traditional HEIs
• Single independent HEI which has study
centers or campus distributed over a wide
area
• Institution fully based on a virtual
environment.

8. Why use ICT?

9. UNIQUE Quality Criteria

10. Comprehensive

11. World-Class Provenance
• Based on the MASSIVE and CEL projects
• 4 years in development
• Created and managed by:

12. Access to Expertise
• A UNIQUE review brings together 2-5
peer reviewers with extensive experience
in TEL and in quality reviews
• The HEXTLEARN review is conducted
virtually, and gives access to a community
of peers
• Both systems are focused on
improvement through formal peer review
by leading experts in the field

13. Sustained Support
• Every review ends with recommendations
for improvement
• 1 year Candidate status for HEIs which
nearly fulfill the criteria
• After 1,5 years, check of progress against
recommendations
• After 3 years, re-accreditation requires
progress, even for best HEIs

14. Sustained Support
• Recommendations are the main point of
the HEXTLEARN exercise
• Application process and follow up involves
participation within a best practice
community

15. Quality Label for
Recognition
Awardees of the UNIQUE label include:
•Moscow Academy of Finance & Industry
(Russia)
•University of Granada (Spain)
•University of Leicster (United Kingdom)
•Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
•University of the Aegean (Greece)
•Aalto University (Finland)
c. 70% of applicants succeed at first try

16. Continually Evolving
• All participants in process evaluate the
process
• Criteria are updated based on state of the
art using data from peer reviews and
consultation of external experts
• New elements are added in to reflect
evolution: currently 2 projects looking at
quality in Open Education Resources

18. The HEXTLEARN
Methodology

19. HEXTLEARN & UNIQUE in
RUSSIA
• UNIQUE is represented in Russia by
AKKORK
• Russian speaking peer review team
• Materials available in Russian
• Team led by European Expert &
Accredited by European Awarding body
CONTACT
www.akkork.ru
+7 495/663 9383

20. Thank You
for your attention!
Anthony F. Camilleri
anthony@camilleri.com
www.qualityfoundation.org
UNIQUE & Hextlearn: European Models
for ICT Accreditation of HEIs in Russia
Moscow Educa Online 1st October 2010