Innovating Higher Education through Creation of ICT Communities


The workshop of the HEXTLEARN project will contribute to the deployment of lifelong learning strategies through ICT in higher education institutions by means of peer-review methodologies. Other instruments in the community-building process include offering a database of good practices and other useful materials, organising seminars and devoted events, and promoting sharing and common understanding amongst the members.


Participants in this workshop are warmly welcomed to discuss innovative approaches in order to build up a community of reviewers. Using Web 2.0 applications, the HEXTLEARN group has already established a platform on the internet that will be introduced and presented. The workshop will be streamed in the internet.


Quality for Adult Learning - An Excellence Service to the Community


Adult Learning Centres (ALCs) have a unique contribution to make in enabling individuals to achieve their personal development goals by identifying and exploiting all available learning opportunities - formal, non-formal, and informal. Since the vast majority of what we know and can do is acquired non-formally and informally, the focus of the QUAL-C project is on ALC non-formal/informal facilitation and specifically on the quality of this facilitation.


A strong European partnership is developing the first European Quality Assurance model for ALCs to enable them to continue to provide a first-class service to the twenty-first century learner.


The QUAL-C project consortium has developed tools that ALCs can use in order to benchmark themselves and review other Adult Centres. During the workshop, these tools will be discussed with the participants. The online portal for QUAL-C and strategies for the dissemination and involving of stakeholders will also be presented.


Quality Management of Peer Production


Peer production has great potential in the area of vocational education and training. The future workforce in Europe in many professions not only has to access and handle great amounts of information and knowledge, but even more importantly, must produce various elements of information by themselves as an integral part of their work.


Peer production is not only a novel method to produce eLearning content; it is also an approach to empower a wide variety of professionals in learning-content production. Thus it also constitutes an important democratic element in bringing work-related learning content production to the actual level of users, tutors, and learning supporters.


The QMPP workshop will contribute to the quality development process and quality management of peer production of eLearning content. The essential work in the project is to develop a solid approach on how to support the quality management of peer-produced eLearning content, pilot the approach in three different VET entities, and produce a joint toolset for the VET providers of quality management of peer-produced eLearning content. Within the workshops, the tools already developed will be presented and discussed with the workshop participants. The workshop is organized of the QMPP-project.