Authors:
Nikolaos Spanoudakis
;
Evangelia Krassadaki
;
Aliki Pialoglou
and
Nikolaos Matsatsinis
Affiliation:
Decision Support Systems Lab (ERGASYA), School of Production Engineering and Management, Chania, Technical University of Crete, 73100 and Greece
Keyword(s):
Higher Education, Quality Assurance, Course Outline, Learning Outcomes, Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning, Generic Skills, Student Assessment, Web Application.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Assessment and Accreditation of Courses and Institutions
;
Authoring Tools and Content Development
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Learning Analytics
;
Social Context and Learning Environments
Abstract:
In 2011, the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency prepared and distributed a course outline template, in paper format, to be filled in by the university tutors. This template contains details about learning outcomes, generic skills, teaching and assessment procedures for each course. The teaching staff, having little knowledge on the aforementioned topics, faced serious difficulties in filling it in. Thus, we developed a web-based information system for outlining courses in our institution. It guides the user (tutor) step-by-step to properly record, document and store every detail of a course, and export it to a pdf file. Additionally, by recording the information in a database, it allows any kind of queries, thus it offers various statistics in university/school/departmental level on the usage of verbs of the Bloom’s taxonomy, about the nurtured generic skills, about the students’ workload per course, etc. The system is user-friendly, according to the results of a sho
rt survey, and it is fully expandable. This paper focuses on the presentation of the web-based system application along with the benefits it introduces firstly for the tutors and secondly for the quality assurance team of the university.
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