On 10 and 11 December 2013 „ECA Winter Conference” will be held in Hague by the European Consortium for Accreditation. This year the event will focus on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and external quality assurance. Before the conference meetings of Management Group (attended by Vice – President of the Polish Accreditation Committee) and ECA working groups (also attended by PKA representatives) are planned.
Detailed agenda of the meeting is as follows:
Tuesday 10 December 2013
11.00 – 13.00 ECA Management Group
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 17.30 ECA Working Groups meetings :
– Working group 1 “Mutual recognition and joint programmes”
– Working group 2 “Internationalisation of accreditation and QA”
– Working group 3 “Qrossroads and information strategies”
– Working group 4 “Mutual learning and best practices”
19.00 – 22.00 ECA dinner
Wednesday 11 December 2013
09.00 – 12.00 ECA Business meeting (Preparations for legal entity)
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
ECA-NVAO Seminar on MOOCs and External Quality Assurance
Chair: Lucien Bollaert, Executive Board member of NVAO
13.00 – Welcome and introduction by Anne Flierman, Chair of NVAO
13.10 – 'MOOCs: a paradigm shift in learning and quality assurance?' by Sir John Daniel, former President & CEO of Commonwealth of Learning and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic, consultant of Commonwealth of Learning
14.00 – 'MOOCs and internal quality assurance' by Timo Kos, Director of Education and Student Affairs, Delft University of Technology and Nellie van de Griend, Delft University of Technology
14.45 – Break
Chair: Rolf Heusser, Chair of ECA
15.15 – 'MOOCs and the consequences for external quality assurance' by Stephen Jackson, Director of Reviews, QAA UK
16.00 – Conclusions by Rolf Heusser and Ann Demeulemeester, Vice Chair of NVAO
16.15 – Reception