JEM Quality Profile
- What are the quality goals (e.g. improving economic efficiency, improving learning results, increasing market share, flexibility etc.)?
- The quality goals is to set best practice and a review process for online resources used in mathematics learning and teaching. The review process will establish the quality of resources that are published by the JEM network.
- In which educational field/context is quality to be developed?
- In mathematics, physics and statistics for high-school, college and university.
- What are the national, regional or local requirements for quality development in the field of education? In what country/countries is a quality approach to be used?
- At European level. The review process must take into account national quality certification if existent, however the final resources must have a broader appeal and be usable as reference for a wider European audience.
- For which process(es) in the e-learning training sequence is quality to be developed?
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It is not for a process but for products (see below).
- Is a quality approach needed for a particular topic (for example, biology instruction, product training in the automobile industry?)
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The quality approach should target the learning and teaching of mathematics.
- Is the quality of a (final) product to be evaluated/ assessed (product orientation) or is the quality of a production or performance process to be improved (process orientation)?
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Product orientation: the quality of the electronic resources distributed by JEM have to be reviewed and assessed according to these quality criteria.
- Which quality development/ assessment methods are to be used?
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Most likely the review process will be based on a form in which the results of the evaluation of the resource are scored. Pedagogical and technological criteria will be used as guidelines for the compilation of the review form.
Which actors are responsible for or involved in the quality development process?-
The JEM quality committee will establish a review process in which they will identify a number of experts that can serve as reviewers for specific characteristics of the electronic resource, the psychometric reviewer, the learning technology reviewer, and so on.
- Which methodological procedures are appropriate for the requirements?
- 1. Benchmarking
- 2. Evaluation
- 1. Oral guided interview
- 2. Written interview (paper/pencil)
- 3. Telephone interview
- 4. Focus groups/discussion groups (qualitative)
- 5. Participatory observation
- 6. Other (for details, cf. also Ehlers 2003a)
- 3. Management approaches
- 1. ISO 9000: 2000 (or adaptations thereof)
- 2. EFQM (or adaptations thereof)
- 3. Other
- 3. Criteria lists, guidelines (detailed list cf. Grüber 1996)
- 4. Learning technology standards (detailed list cf. Pawlowski 2001)
- 5. Certification
- 6. Accreditation
- 7. Other
- In which area of e-learning is quality to be developed?
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Most likely both technological and pedagogical quality will have to be reviewed.
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