IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. e-learning part of the IADIS MULTI CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE AND

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2 IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-learning 2007 part of the IADIS MULTI CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2007

3 PROCEEDINGS OF THE IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-learning 2007 part of the IADIS MULTI CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2007 Volume I LISBON, PORTUGAL JULY 6-8, 2007 Organised by IADIS International Association for Development of the Information Society iii

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5 THE CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF THE TEST ITEM ATTRIBUTES AND THE TEST-TAKERS PERFORMANCE IN WEB-BASED TEST Deng-jyi Chen, Ah-fur Lai and Yu-wei Jhan CHANGING THE DEGREE OF TASK DIFFICULTY IN CONCEPT MAP BASED ASSESSMENT SYSTEM Alla Anohina, Dmitrijs Pozdnakovs and Janis Grundspenkis A SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES-BASED SYSTEM FOR STUDENTS ASSESSMENT IN E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Dagoberto Castellanos-Nieves, Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis, Rafael Valencia-García and Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT: AN EVALUATION METHODOLOGY FOR E-LEARNING Benigno Vincenza and Vallarino Elisabetta A PROPOSAL OF METHODOLOGY FOR E-LEARNING CONTENTS PRODUCTION C. Guerra Artal, M.D. Afonso Suárez, F.M. Hernández Tejera and J.T. Milán Asué. RELATING THE CONTRIBUTION OF SCHOOL-BASED ICT COORDINATORS TO THEIR LEADERSHIP ROLE Kit-pui Wong MOBILE AND WEB TOOLS FOR PARTICIPATIVE LEARNING Diogo Cabral and Nuno Correia FACILITATING ONLINE INTERACTIONS OF STUDENTS OF CONFUCIUS HERITAGE CULTURE BY SHEPHERD LEADERSHIP Yi-Ching Jean Chiu THE DESIGN OF INTERACTIVITY FOR A WEB-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AT A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION Riana Rheeder, Rabaitse Diseko and Geoffrey Lautenbach IDENTIFYING TEACHERS ATTITUDES ON E-LEARNING THE EFFECTS OF EXPERIENCE AND INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT Elina Uschanov and Erkki Sutinen BLENDED LEARNING DESIGN FOR EFFECTIVE CIS INSTRUCTION Qi Wang MEASURING E-LEARNING FOR THE QUALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION Pérez-López, Ana; López-Gijón, Javier and Vilchez-Pardo, Josefina A COGNITIVE MODEL OF PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING AND ITS APPLICATION TO EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE DESIGN Preetha Ram, Ashwin Ram, Jennifer Holzman and Chris Sprague AUTHOR INDEX ix

6 ISBN: IADIS MEASURING E-LEARNING FOR THE QUALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION Pérez-López, Ana; López-Gijón, Javier; Vilchez-Pardo, Josefina University of Granada, Colegio Máximo, Campus Universitario Cartuja, Granada, Spain. Phone: + (34) , Mobile phone: + (34) , Fax: + (34) , aperez@ugr.es ABSTRACT The general purpose of this paper is to present the experience of educational innovation in higher education gathering tools of measurement, that bring us closer to the model implemented in the EHEA based on quality and focused on the student learning. We studied possibilities and advantages of virtual education compared to those that traditional one offers and we raised the experience of a system combining virtual learning with attendance. The methods used in the evaluation of this experience are the survey to students, the data of the accesses, measured from the platform, the data of interaction in the learning process obtained from the platform, the visibility or popularity, and the data of quality / positioning of the server measured from two different tools. From these data, we created a series of indicators that measure learning effectiveness in virtual education platforms. These Indicators will allow to the comparison of different projects or initiatives by means of benchmarking and also to take one more step in the evolution towards new models of quality learning. KEYWORDS Benchmarking; blended learning; educational innovation; educational quality; e-learning; European higher education area; higher education; indicators; self-learning; virtual learning. 1. INTRODUCTION The Secretaryship of Innovation and Quality (2006) is the main power behind the educational innovation in the University of Granada (UGR). Its general targets should impel and manage the different initiatives of optimization and innovation in teaching being awarded, the good practices that could lead to the improvement of the educational quality. Due to all these circumstances, we asked for the creation of a group of educational innovation oriented to the information and communication technologies (ICT) in learning, with the idea to encourage interactivity, creation of communities of virtual learning, lifelong Learning and to direct our education towards the model of the EHEA. Therefore, we created the Innovation INTERAFP Group, whose first project "Interactivity, Self-learning and Lifelong Learning in virtual environment for Library and Information Science" allowed both students and teachers to gain access to learning tools that encourage environments of collaborative learning and based on the problem solving. A server was acquired and we called it NEMEA (2006). This is for hosting a virtual education platform using a free software (Moodle) for management of the educative processes with materials from different subjects implied: contents, glossaries, methodologies, self-assessments, resources, activities and study guides; together with a set of didactic tools (forum, electronic mail, chat, etc.) that manage all the processes of intuitive form, of easy handling that serves our purpose to develop creatively a virtual environment for higher education, combining education with the information dissemination. 518

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