“Rolf is one of the most intellectually energetic, imaginatively enthusiastic, practical visionary I have ever met. He has more ideas than he can handle, a generous curious mind he draws people in with elegant effortlessness and egoless collaboration, and extraordinary things happen.” From beginning of November 2009 until end of March 2011, I was responsible on behalf of the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning, to work on the following KA4 projects, promoting the creation of a framework for the effective exploitation of the results of the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP):
SEVAQ+
In a previous project called SEVAQ (2005-2007), an online tool and an approach for self-evaluation has been developed for the Vocational Education & Training (VET) sector. The European Commission has agreed to fund a follow-up project (SEVAQ+) with the objective to disseminate and exploitate the results not only in the VET sector but as well in Higher Education (HE). Read more on the SEVAQ+ project on the website: http://www.sevaq.eu/index.php?title=01_-_THE_SEVAQ%2b_project
I find this project very fascinating since it is combining two approaches to evaluate the output of a training or course: Kirkpatrick and EFQM. This is in particular useful to distinguish the different influence which are affecting the result of a learning activity in an organisation.
The SEVAQ+ team has further developed the initial online tool - now, a user has the possibility to subscribe with different roles (course designer, manager or learner). A course designer can select out of more than 700 questions the crucial ones for his purpose. An electronical guidance is helping during this process. Afterwards, a participant can rate the sub-criteria, the importance of the sub-criteria and give a comment.
My activities:
- Coordinating EFQUEL's activities in the project
- Chairing the internal Quality Assurance Committee (consisting of the workpackage leaders)
- Developing and conducting dissemination activities (creation of online badges, press releases etc.)
- Organising and holding workshops and seminars
- Coordinating and contributing to the long- and short-listing process of the Delphi expert group
- Creating Rapid eLearning applications for the Delphi expert group
It might be possible that the SEVAQ+ tool could be once integrated in the EFQM toolbox. In general, I could imagine that such tools like SEVAQ+ will be most probably more in common in the future. There is a strong potential for international online-based benchmarking.
