COLLECTING DATA FOR FEEDING THE ONLINE DIMENSION OF UNIVERSITY RANKINGS: A FEASIBILITY TEST

Online universities have been always concerned about the quality of online education. However, the current rankings systems do not consider their singularities, and thus current rating criteria and indicators result in downgrading of their position in the rankings. CODUR (Creating an Online Dimensio...

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Published inItalian journal of educational technology
Main Authors Albert Sangrà Morer, Montse Guitert, Nati Cabrera-Lanzo, Maria Taulats, Lidia Toda, Anna Carrillo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Firenze University Press 01.11.2019
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Educational Technology
Evaluation
Online Universities
Quality
Teaching
University Rankings
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Summary:Online universities have been always concerned about the quality of online education. However, the current rankings systems do not consider their singularities, and thus current rating criteria and indicators result in downgrading of their position in the rankings. CODUR (Creating an Online Dimension for University Rankings) is a European project that developed a set of criteria and indicators for evaluating the online dimension of university rankings. Criteria and indicators were created from a participatory research approach. A Toolbox to support data collection (and management) from the online universities to be ranked was also developed. This paper presents the testing process of this Toolbox, carried out with four international universities, located in different continents. These institutions have tested the feasibility of gathering the expected data to feed the indicators. The Toolbox test has been shown useful to forecast the availability of the data to feed the online dimension indicators.
ISSN:2532-4632
2532-7720
DOI:10.17471/2499-4324/1114