Quality assurance expectations for online higher education: stepping stones to support post-pandemic decisions in Georgia

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-10-31 DOI:10.1080/13538322.2022.2123266

Anca Greere, F. Crozier

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Abstract

This article considers post-pandemic implications for higher education institutions and explores the steps required to continue with online delivery, where desirable. Strategic considerations are outlined and priorities for development analysed to ensure higher education institutions can align, in a post-pandemic future, with quality assurance expectations for online education, especially where they are new to the online environment. An analysis of the Georgian higher education context exhibited highly transferable findings as it identified the specificities of the emergency response, highlighted experiences relevant to the transition phase and recommended criteria and guidelines to support the quality assurance of post-pandemic online education. While the Georgian pandemic experience has been as challenging as in other parts of the world, the fact that the whole sector was legally denied the opportunity to offer online education before COVID-19 makes for interesting analysis and confirms that post-pandemic online higher education development is as much an institutional decision as it is a systemic leap. [ FROM AUTHOR]

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对在线高等教育的质量保证期望:支持格鲁吉亚大流行后决策的垫脚石

本文考虑了大流行后对高等教育机构的影响，并探讨了在需要的情况下继续在线授课所需的步骤。概述了战略考虑并分析了发展优先事项，以确保高等教育机构在大流行后的未来能够符合对在线教育的质量保证期望，特别是在它们刚刚接触在线环境的情况下。对格鲁吉亚高等教育情况的分析显示出高度可转移的结论，因为它确定了应急工作的特殊性，强调了与过渡阶段有关的经验，并建议了支持大流行病后在线教育质量保证的标准和准则。虽然格鲁吉亚的大流行经历与世界其他地区一样具有挑战性，但在COVID-19之前，整个部门在法律上被剥夺了提供在线教育的机会，这一事实使人们进行了有趣的分析，并证实了大流行后的在线高等教育发展既是一种制度决定，也是一种系统飞跃。[源自作者]

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.