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UNED, Open and Distance Education and Virtual
Learning Environments
Roma, October 2004 Beatriz Álvarez. PhD. Director
of International Co-operation. UNED
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UNED in figures
UNED

• Founded in 1972
• 183.000 students
• More than 120 Doctoral
• dissertations per year
• 1.250 Professors (full time)
• 5.700 Tutor - Teachers
• 1.200 Administrative and
• Services staff

• Students in undergraduate studies
• 5 under 25 year old
• 84 between 25 45 year old
• 12 above 45 year old
• 6.500 Students in in-service
• TeachersTraining Program
• 6.700 Post-graduate students
• 61 Associated Centres
• 17 Centres Abroad

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Careers and other studies
UNED
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Geographic Dimension UNED in Spain and abroad
UNED

Argentina (BUENOS AIRES)
Morocco (TANGER)
Argentina (ROSARIO)
Peru (LIMA)
Belgium (BRUSSELS)
Portugal (LISBON)
Brazil (SAO PAULO)
Switzerland (BERNA)
Equator Guinea (MALABO)
United Kingdom (LONDON)
Equator Guinea (BATA)
USA (MIAMI)
Associated centres offer
France (PARIS)
USA (WASHINGTON Represent. office )
Germany (BERLIN)
Venezuela (CARACAS)
Mexico (MEXICO D.F.)
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Association as mean for UNED International
Vicerectorate of Intl Relations
UNED
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Methodology Use of technology
UNED
Radio
Wap Campus
TV
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Social Impact
UNED
Social reach (some profiles)

• Regular Students (180.000)
• Disabled Students (1.700)
• Students at penitentiary centres (500)
• Students in a second career (14 )
• Students according to labour situation
• 71 already working
• 25 unemployed
• 4 housewives

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UNED
ODL / VLE and European Space of Higher
Education (Bolognia Process)
Main challenges for Open Universities Quality
Assurance Accreditation
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Bologna, 1999
UNED
Berlin, 2003 Council of Ministers

• By 2005, national quality assurance systems
  should include
• A definition of the responsibilities of the
  bodies and institutions involved
• The evaluation of programmes or institutions,
  including internal assessment, external review,
  participation of students and publication of
  results
• A system of accreditation, certification or
  comparable procedures
• International participation, co-operation and
  networking

• Diversity in higher education according to the
  needs of students and society profiling of
  courses
• Two tier structure and ECTS (Grade lt3/4 years
  max.gt
• Post-grade lt1/2 years max.gt)
• Quality Assurance finetuning of criteria and
  procedures national systems
• Accreditation international, discipline based

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Quality assurance and accreditation for ODL and
virtual higher education
Aspects of VL in European higher education

• On campus provisions (mainly e-learning, and
  aspects such as videoconferencing,...) all
  universities are involved
• Off campus provisions increasing in all
  countries ODL universities are forerunners
• Internationalisation mobility, staff exchange,
  joint degrees, joint programs,...
• New stakeholders industry

• Main criteria
• Parameters and criteria (input, througput an
  output) that ensure quality technological,
  organisational, pedagogical
• Focus on fitness for purpose improving access
  and flexibility, learning process and learning
  results
• Development of a framework of quality factors,
  criteria and procedures
• Accreditation consumer protection
  accountability excellence

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EADTU Task ForceEuropean Association of
Distant Teaching Universities
UNED
Open Universities and Bolonia Process

• Development of quality assurance criteria for
  Distant Education institutions
• How to finetune national or institutional
  frameworks (relevant parameters, criteria,
  procedures) with the rest of institutions in the
  european countries?
• Is an international accreditation for specific
  aspects of virtual education possible, suitable
  and feasible?
• How to organise this?

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Evaluation and Accreditation in Spain
UNED

• ANECA Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la
  Calidad y Acreditación
• (Spanish Evaluation and Accreditation
  Organisation)
• In Spain accreditation is condition for
• official recognition of diplomas
• financing the programme by government
• financing students (Spain)
• Accreditation is achieved after external judgment
  
• by order of university
• executed by a Visiting and Judging Authority

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• PROGRAM FOR INSTITUTIONAL EVALUATION (ANECA)
• National Agency for Quality Evaluation and
  Accreditation

UNED
REQUIREMENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM FOR
INSTITUTIONAL EVALUATION Study Plan with at
least, three promotions of graduates

• SELECTION CRITERIA
• Participation in other plans of institutional
  assessment
• Agile, valid and available information system
• Own qualified staff to offer support to the
  process

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Accreditation
UNED

• PROGRAMS SUBJECT OF JUDGEMENT ON
• FOLLOWING ASPECTS
• Aims of programme
• Training schedule and content
• Quantity, quality and scientific involvement of
• Teaching staff
• Facilities
• Internal quality management system
• Results

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QA at national level
Translation Technical Unit of Institutional
Evaluation. UTEVI The Technical Unit of
Institutional Evaluation is created within the
frame of the National Institute of Distance
Education (IUED) as a technical support for the
quality assessment processes in which this
institution is involved. Its main objective,
following the guidelines of Quality Plans, is to
magnage evaluation and offer technical support to
the different self-evaluation committees which
begin their activities every year.
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UNED
UTEVI (Technical Unit for Institutional
Evaluation)

• CERTIFICATION
• Doctoral Programs
• Libraries
• Own Titles
• University Institutes of Research

ACREDITATION
Bolonia Process European Espace for Higher
Education