Title: Unit 4: COL's QA Tools
Course: Quality Assurance of Blended and Online Learning

15 questions for unit 4.

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Q: In quality assuring massive open online courses (MOOC's), which of the following aspects you must always consider?
- Purpose and perspective
- Duration and level of difficulty
- Developer and country of origin
- Quizzes and assessment tasks in the MOOC
A: Purpose and perspective
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Q: All of the following are quality headings in the Quality Assuring Open Educational Resources (OER) Tool, except
- Teaching and learning processes
- Information and material content
- Assessment systems
- System technical and technology
A: Assessment systems
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Q: The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Quality Assurance for open educational resources (OER) Tool provides guidelines to teachers on creating and publishing their own OER. All of the following are benefits of creating and publishing OER except that:
- Teachers who create OER empower themselves as authors
- Teachers who create OER raise their self-esteem and social status
- Teachers who create OER make a lot of money out of the resources
- Teachers who create OER help raise the profile of their school
A: Teachers who create OER make a lot of money out of the resources
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Q: The Toolkit recommends using the same type of licence as in the original open educational resources (OER) whenever users create new versions of the OER.
- True
- False
A: True
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Q: There is a standard recommended balance of face-to-face and online learning in blended learning.
- True
- False
A: False
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Q: The Quality Assurance Rubric for Blended Learning Developed by the Commonwealth of Learning can be used as both a formative and a summative assessment tool. As a summative assessment tool, the rubric can only be used to evaluate a blended course by national quality regulators.
- True
- False
A: False
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Q: The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Rubric discourages the use of open educational resources (OER) in the designing of blended learning courses.
- True
- False
A: False
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Q: For each category of the Toolkit, you must always include areas identified as needing improvement as well as recommendations in the review report.
- True
- False
A: True
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Q: The Rubric is silent on how students should be supported in blended learning.
- True
- False
A: False
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Q: Which one of the following statements about benchmarking technology-enabled learning (TEL) is not true?
- It is a method of quality assuring courses delivered through modes like blended and online learning
- It is underpinned by the motivation to improve TEL implementation
- It is a way of identifying weaknesses that need to be improved in an institution
- It is an undertaking that takes place entirely within an institution, without involving outside people
A: It is an undertaking that takes place entirely within an institution, without involving outside people
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Q: The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Benchmarking Toolkit outlines the following steps that are followed when conducting external peer reviews for benchmarking technology-enabled learning. Arrange the steps in the correct order in which they are implemented during the peer-review process:
- Step 1 | The institution to be reviewed conducts a self-review and compiles a self-evaluation report.
- Step 2 | Members of the peer-review team individually review the self-review benchmark report with evidence from the institution.
- Step 3 | The peer-review team conducts a site visit.
- Step 4 | Comments from the peer-review team are sent to the institution for clarification/response, giving an opportunity to further substantiate the original ratings.
- Step 5 | The peer-review team compiles a report with recommendations and shares with senior management of the reviewed institution.
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Q: For an institution to implement technology-enabled learning (TEL) effectively, the following three stages should be followed. Arrange the stages in the correct order in which they should be implemented:
- Stage 1 | Preparation
- Stage 2 | Development
- Stage 3 | Maturation
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Q: Match the following activities with the correct phase of technology-enabled learning (TEL) implementation:
- Baseline survey | Preparation
- Policy development | Preparation
- Strengthening infrastructure | Development
- Blended course development | Development
- Evaluation of blended learning | Maturation
- Community of practice | Maturation
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Q: You only report score data that you record on a Radar Chart when you benchmark using the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Benchmarking Toolkit for technology-enabled learning (TEL).
- True
- False
A: False
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Q: External peer-review team activities are always completed remotely using online technologies.
- True
- False
A: False
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