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Directory of resources
The QA-QE SIG aims to build a directory of its members' resources relating to QA and QE in e-learning, e.g.

Case studies

Course evaluation resources

QAA reports

Guidelines

Reviews of research

Lessons from QAA audits

Useful web links

The directory is available when you become a member of the SIG and is searchable in multiple ways, e.g. by institution, tags, keywords, posting date, author etc.

Creating Directory entries
All members are asked to create directory entries of their resources in order to make other members aware of them. You can also upload the resources or put links to where they are located on your institutional web-site.

Feedback/rating of resources
As a SIG member, if you identify and use a resource, we ask that you provide feedback on it to help other members and the creators of the resource.

We have also introduced a novel "Amazon star-rating" feature that allows you to provide a 1-5 rating on your perception of the quality of the resource you use.

The PREEL2 Workshop
"Effective application of quality assurance & enhancement procedures to e-learning courses"

Members of the QA-QE SIG have developed a workshop and set of resources to guide participant teams/institutions to:

Identify the challenges that course teams face addressing the issues of QA and QE.

Review the internal quality assurance procedures in place in the institution for e-learning courses to identify the role they perform in assuring and enhancing the quality of the programmes.

Analyse the issues and factors affecting the application of the QA procedures in e-learning courses.

Review the contribution of research to improve the strategies for assuring and enhancing the quality of e-learning courses.

Identify the main challenges and design strategies for an effective application of the internal QA procedures to e-learning courses.

The Workshop is based on research, data collected by the QAA in their institutional audits, and a review of e-learning research/experience regarding the application of QA/QE procedures in the HEA/JISC Benchmarking and Pathfinder projects by the collaborating institutions.

Workshop Programme
The full-day workshop offers participants opportunities for discussion and to review the contribution of research to analyse and improve the effective implementation of the internal quality assurance and enhancement procedures to e-learning courses in their institutions.

The workshop covers 4 main topics:

Making ideas explicit: QA, QE, Internal QA procedures & E-learning, what do we mean by them?

Internal QA procedures in e-learning courses

Issues affecting effective implementation of internal QA procedures in e-learning courses

Planning actions to improve an effective application of QA procedures to e-learning courses

Collaborating partners
The PREEL2 Workshop has been developed as a collaboration between:

Institute of Education, University of London (lead institution)

University of Derby

University of London External System, and University of London Centre for Distance Education

Quality Assurance Agency (QAA)

University of Reading

University of Teesside

Further info
If you would like the PREEL2 workshop to be delivered in your institution or for further information about the workshop, please contact Magdalena Jara at the Institute of Education m.jara@ioe.ac.uk.