Claudio Dondi

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• Claudio Dondi
• President of EFQUEL (European Foundation for
  Quality in eLearning)

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The rationale of the project

• The reform that the European higher education
  area needs in order to play a leading role in the
  Eurppe of Knowledge and at global level (as
  stated in the Lisbon Strategy) can be enhanced
  and facilitated by improving the way European
  Universities adopt and integrate ICT in their
  activities, both at the level of the pedagogy of
  e-Learning and at the level of ICT supported
  working processes.

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Project aim

• The UNIQUE project aims at enhancing the reform
  process of European higher education institutions
  by creating, testing and launching an eLearning
  quality label for ICT use in higher education.

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Project target groups

• The EU higher education governance community,
  composed by policy makers concerned with higher
  education reform, university management teams,
  associations and representative bodies, and
  higher education funding authorities
• The EU university students and adult learners and
  the European society as a whole, that will
  benefit from a EU higher education area that
  integrates ICT in teaching and management
  practices in a quality-oriented way.

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Activities and Outputs (1/2)

• Conduct a preliminary analysis of the success
  stories and pitfalls of eLearning in European
  higher education and present it in a report
• Study how to adapt the successful experience of
  the Programme accreditation for
  teChnology-Enhanced Learning (CEL) from the
  management education field to the broad field of
  eLearning in higher education
• Set up and animate a Steering Committee to make
  sure that all the project outcomes will have an
  impact at the system level of higher education
• Prepare specifications for the UNIQUe quality
  label and test it with a network of 12
  universities

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Activities and Outputs (2/2)

• Set up and animate a community of practices able
  to support a benchlearning process among the 12
  universities involved in the project piloting
• Launch the UNIQUe quality label in a high level
  European conference
• Guarantee that, thanks to the work of the
  European Foundation for Quality in eLearning
  (EFQUEL), the project results are sustainable and
  visible.

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Partners

• MENON Network (Coordinator)
• EUROPACE
• EFQUEL HE SIG U. Ganada
• EFMD
• Project duration November 2006 - October 2008

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The System view
CEL eLearning Programme Accreditation EFMD

• eLearning Programme 2005-2007
• MASSIVE
• Institutional Peer review
• Method/Model
• Impact on Universities Management
• Services

• Socrates Programme 2007-2008
• UNIQUE Institutional Accreditation
• Converging criteria
• Accreditation method
• Joint effort

Partnership at National and EU level (Regional in
some MCs)
EFQUEL SIG HE
ICT in HE Institutional Accreditation Systems
European Peer Reviewers Team