Quality System Audits of the Finnish Universities from the e-Learning Perspectives
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.210809.018How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- eLearning, quality assurance, document analysis, audit, Bologna process
- Abstract
Digitalization has been an increasing trend in the last 20 years even in Finnish universities. Several attempts have been made systematize eLearning development in all universities. Finland has 14 universities, and they all follow the Bologna process guidelines where quality assurance is one cornerstone. There is a national quality audit organization - Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC) who is charge of conducting quality management system audits in universities. The audit reports are good source of information about the status of quality assurance in each of the universities. A document analysis was carried out to 19 quality management system audits and the results show that: Universities have taken internet to use in education usage for education in some forms. Universities have various IT systems in use for teaching and learning purposes. It seems that most universities have developed their own systems in addition to utilizing Moodle teaching and learning platform. A couple of universities have indicated support functions for the use of eLearning both for the teachers and students. All universities have quality management systems but none of the universities have presented quality assurance practices beyond student feedback, but no explanations how the student feedback is actually used to improve the quality of the teaching in these universities.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Pekka Kess PY - 2021 DA - 2021/08/09 TI - Quality System Audits of the Finnish Universities from the e-Learning Perspectives BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Transformations and Innovations in Business and Education (ICTIBE 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 127 EP - 134 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210809.018 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210809.018 ID - Kess2021 ER -