HIGHER EDUCATION

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HIGHER EDUCATION COURSE ACCREDITATION AND
REACCREDITATION (CARP Stage II) WORKSHOPS prese
nted by Eike Pakeha and Elizabeth Desailly
(AQPVET) Mona El-Ayoubi (TLDG) March 7, 8,9,12
13, 2007
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• Introduction Elizabeth
• Over view of proformas Eike
• Graduate Attributes at course and unit level
  course and unit aims objectives TL
  strategies assessment - Mona

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About us

• Your QA Team comes from the office of the DVC,
  TL - from aqpvet and TLDG
• (Eike, Elizabeth, Asma, Mona)
• We are here to assist you in preparing your
  courses and units for the quality accreditation
  Stage of CARP and to assist you to meet the
  internal timelines which are tied to external
  deadlines.

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STAGES OF CARP

• The staged process and the design of the
  documentation aims to
• separate resource and planning issues from the
  quality accreditation
• process.
• We are also aiming to separate routine
  administrative activity from
• academic judgement.
• The proformas are also designed to capture
  course details and
• delivery information that are required for other
  reporting or publishing
• purposes SATAC, DEST, CDU Web etc
• CARP is process driven but it is also an
  opportunity to review
• courses and units from a TL perspective. It is
  the input from the
• academic staff that is vital if it is to be more
  than a process.

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STAGE II

• Course structure and content, graduate
  attributes, course
• and unit aims, objectives, learning outcomes,
  assessment,
• teaching and learning strategies and modes of
  delivery.
• This is the stage at which course
  developers/leaders have
• the opportunity to take into account input from
  internal
• external stakeholders academic staff from the
  discipline
• and across the University, TLDG staff, Course
• Advisory Groups, consider feedback from SELTS.

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TLDG

• The Teaching Learning Development Group (TLDG)
  supports the development of teaching and learning
  at Charles Darwin University (CDU).
• Mona El-Ayoubi from TLDG is here today and will
  provide advice today and throughout this process.
  
• TLDG has organised extra hands on workshops
  that you can attend if you need more guided
  assistance with the TLD aspects.
• While all course and unit development will
  receive attention in the accreditation process
  some courses have been identified for more
  intensive intervention and have been allocated
  TLDG staff already.

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STAGE II THE PROCESS and VERSION CONTROL

• SCHOOL
• Completing the documentation
• HOS, TL Champions, course co-ordinators/
  leaders/developers, academic staff teaching in
  the Course, unit developers Course developer is
  responsible for the process at a course level
• TL Champion or HOS drives the process at School
  level
• Dont forget Course Advisory Group Meetings
• Signing off
• Documentation to be signed off by School TL
  Group / HOS, goes through the School Office to
  Faculty EO in the Deans Office,
• Note Your QA Team from the Office of DVC is
  available to assist whenever
• required. This is our priority for the next few
  months.

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STAGE II THE PROCESS and VERSION CONTROL

• FACULTY
• Deans Office/Faculty EO coordinate the collation
  of documentation for the Faculty TL Meeting.
• Final check and forward documentation to AQPVET
  email aqpteam_at_cdu.edu.au
• NOTE Version control is very important. Eike has
  
• some suggestions on numbering documents.

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Timelines

• 31 March 07 ALL COURSE DESCRIPTIONS FOR 2008
  SATAC GUIDE for notification to SATAC in
  April
• 11 May 07 STAGE II DOCUMENTATION (COURSE
  AND UNITS) to AQPVET for preparation for
  consideration at June 1 TL Panel
• 15 June 07 Revised STAGE II documentation to
  AQPVET
• 30 June 07 STUDY PLANS and UNIT OFFERINGS for
  all courses for S1, 2008 completed for
  preparation and publication to the Web by the
  end of July ready for opening of SATAC in
  August.
• Report All to Academic Board 11th August

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FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Schools Faculties will need to set internal
  timelines
• Course Advisory Groups MUST meet minutes from
  these meetings MUST be included in the
  documentation
• Please note that you must have appropriate
  stakeholder representation industry,
  professional, student, graduates too many
  internal CDU staff on many of the current CAGs
• SELTS please take the opportunity to
  incorporate feedback from SELTS into content of
  courses and units. There is to be a renewed
  focus on SELTS compliance and response - in
  2007.

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What the QA Team can do for you!

• We are here to support academic staff to ensure
• that you have more time to allocate to the
• academic content and have to worry less about the
  
• paperwork.
• We will assist you to complete the documentation.
• We can provide data and resources.
• We will provide support to the HOS School and the
  Deans
• Office in the final preparation stages of the
  documentation.
• CAG Meetings Jape Room (this room) can be used
  for CAG meetings.
• Bookings through Asma Akram in our office. A
  member of the QA Team
• will attend if required.

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Resources

• We have a website a work in progress that has
  resources and links that may assist you in your
  academic planning and course and unit
  development.
• http//www.cdu.edu.au/aqpvet/he-index.html
• We would appreciate your input into this site
  if you can think of other links/resources that
  may be useful to have here please let us know.

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How you can help us

• Please use our combined skills and knowledge we
  know you have a lot of other commitments, we can
  help you with this one
• No rogue documentation if you dont have a pre-
  populated document ask us for one
• Version control is vital in your School,
  Faculty and to AQPVET
• Meet deadlines! We have set the timelines against
  external deadlines which the University is
  obligated to meet. It also helps us to better
  prepare the documentation for meetings, better
  for you!
• Feedback on proformas process etc is always
  welcome