Title: Lesson 1: Introduction to Education Quality Assurance
Course: Education quality assurance > Section: Introduction to Education Quality Assurance

This lesson will provide an introduction to education quality assurance touching upon vision, policy, systems and procedures. After that, the participants need to start collecting and describing existing quality assurance policy, system and procedures documentation from their own university. The first lesson ends with the preparation of an introduction of the participants and their role in EQA, to be presented during the first day in the Netherlands.

INTRODUCTION TO THE LESSON

This lesson will provide an introduction to education quality assurance touching upon vision, policy, systems and procedures. After that, the participants need to start collecting and describing existing quality assurance policy, system and procedures documentation from their own university. The first lesson ends with the preparation of an introduction of the participants and their role in EQA, to be presented during the first day in the Netherlands.

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of this lesson are:

- Define different important components in EQA (vision, policy, system, procedures)
- Describe the existing policy, system and procedures at the own university, including the internal and external directives that influence them.
- Analyse/explain the participant’s role in EQA

ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

Preferably have acquired some basic knowledge of educational management and affinity with education quality assurance.

Furthermore the course requires the following background from the participants:
• Working knowledge of English
• Ability to use PowerPoint for preparing a presentation
• Online access to and familiar with the use of the EENSAT Education portal, upload of assignments;

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Suggested sequence of studies:

- Study the Introduction in the Lesson 1 document
- Conduct the assignments a described in the Lesson 1 document

TASKS

There are 3 assignments in this lesson, that need to be executed. A first reparatory assignment is reading the Introduction document and related materials. Before traveling to the Netherlands also assignment 1 and 2 have to be executed. The details of the assignments are described in document “EENSAT_EQA_Lesson  1”.

The assignments do not have to be uploaded or handed in, but will be presented during lesson 2.

PLANNED TIME FRAME FOR THIS LESSON

10 hours (the time that students are expected to work on it, see also study load – table 1)