THE HYPOTHESIS FOR THE QMPP QUALITY MODEL Sample Clauses

THE HYPOTHESIS FOR THE QMPP QUALITY MODEL. This chapter discusses the hypothesis for the QMPP model – in other words the project’s approach how to achieve and ensure quality in peer produced eLearning content. As discussed in the first chapters of this document, the endorsed quality approach to peer production is not seen as a standard, but rather as a quality process including different stages. There are a number of critical aspects to be taken into consideration in these different stages. The quality management challenge in eLearning content produced by peer production can, however, undermine the merits of this approach and method. The quality work methodology in peer production is at its best dispersed and fragmented. Often it has also been claimed, that the very nature of peer production is its free flow and thus any formal mechanism (including the quality approach) would be drastically against the creativity factor. At the moment there are already a number of useful tools and approaches used (such as tools for peer reviews, tools for creating own wikis, dictionaries etc.) to ensure and improve the quality of peer produced eLearning content. However, it is important to emphasize that peer production requires also enabling and supporting structures and their effective management. The key issue in this project is to develop a holistic approach to peer production, which enables also the effective utilization of this unique method. The importance of peer production of eLearning content will grow especially in the sector of vocational education and training as well as in professional continuing education. Many organizations face challenges of shortening life- cycle of learning content as well as operational challenges in providing required learning content with short lead times and lower costs. However, it is also understood that the learning content produced by peers (based on professional experience) can be more accurate and attracting than “clinically produced” learning content by external e-learning experts. Peer production has great potential in the area of vocational education and training. The future workforce in Europe in many professions has not only to access and handle great amounts of information and knowledge, but even more importantly to produce various elements of information by themselves as an integral part of their work. Peer production is not only a novel method to produce eLearning content, but it is also an approach to empower a wide variety of professionals to the learning cont...