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Quality Assurance

The Quality Assurance Community of Practice is a network of continuing education practitioners dedicated to helping each other define, identify and develop benchmarks to assure excellence in continuing education programs.

The Quality Assurance Community of Practice:

• Provides a national network of peers concerned about benchmarking programmatic and administrative issues pertinent to well-run continuing education units.

• Addresses issues of program evaluation.

• Helps members prepare for accreditation and unit reviews.

• Assists members with establishing means to assess prior learning.

• Promotes discussion of faculty development issues.

Members of Quality Assurance can select from the following ways to participate in the activities of the Community of Practice:

• Join a listserv discussion of best practices.

• Attend or develop sessions at the Annual Conference and regional meetings devoted to key issues in quality assurance.

• Conduct research aimed at developing best practices and quality standards for continuing higher education.

• Review quality assurance guidelines of relevance to continuing higher education.

• Develop common standards and assessment measures for continuing education.

• Promote the inclusion of continuing education and distance learning experts on accreditation review teams.

• Serve as a member of the leadership team.

QA Resource File

Rules of Thumb for CE Student Evaluations
Presentation at UCEA Annual Conference, Philadelphia 2001.

Establishing and Maintaining Successful Consortia
Presentation at UCEA Executive Assembly, Chicago 2001.

Building Effective Strategic Alliances: Notes from the Field (PDF)
Presentation by Daniel W. Shannon at the UCEA Executive Assembly, Chicago 2001.

Members of this Community are concerned with:

• Evaluating programs
• Assessing learning outcomes
• Preparing for accreditation and unit reviews
• Credentialling
• Assessing prior learning
• Faculty development

For further information on this CoP, please contact Reed Scull, University of Wyoming, Chair of the Quality Assurance Community of Practice.

For information concerning membership in UPCEA, please contact Cyrus Homayounpour, Director of Membership, at 202.659.3130 or cyrus@upcea.edu.