A check list for course providers.
With this quality framework, we aim to provide a scaffold for creating online, non-credit courses for people who care for loved ones with physical and/or mental challenges. The model is asynchronous to cater for the learners who need full flexibility.
The target groups for the framework are institutions who run or support non-profit and non-credit courses for carers and who don’t necessarily have this as their main activity.
The framework consists of five sets of checklists. We have aimed to group them so that one or two persons would likely be responsible for each list, and in what could be a chronology of five stages in the planning and execution process.
The checklists have the form of questions, some yes/no but most open-ended. There are not necessarily any right or wrong answers to the questions, but if one does not have any answer at all, or the answer is “no” that could be an indication that something is overlooked. Each category starts with a short theoretical introduction to set the questions into a context.
Education is rarely a linear event, but the framework is intended to work as a list of elements to be completed for the specific course, and then revisited after each evaluation, creating an ongoing quality assessment process in a course cycle. However, the skilled educators will often use informal feedback to adjust her/his tutoring, and the formal evaluation will not always catch these improvements.
The checklists are based on experience from formal and non-formal education and training institutions. This includes best practice but also other quality guides and even text books.
The Project's Quality check lists -an example of our version 2
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