Europe's leading institutional association for online, open & distance higher education

This report is set up by the expert pools of the EMPOWER programme established by EADTU to cover the latest trends and developments in new modes of teaching.

The report is the outcome of a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Online Assessment, representing 17 EADTU member institutions. The mission of the group is to share members’ local expertise in how to design and plan institutional online assessment strategies and the experiences from delivering under the conditions of the Covid19 pandemic and in a post pandemic world.

This paper revisits the current flexibilization of the education landscape (modular learning and stacking of learning units) and what the implications are for current good practice in recognition as promoted by the LRC.

The 2021 report summarises the ICDE Quality Network’s analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2021 in accelerating the inclusion of online elements in so many Higher Education institutions in all parts of the world, together with the need for revised understandings of Quality Assurance to support this transition.

We look back at a very eventful year, in which EADTU shared its expertise in online, open & distance higher education by numerous events, publications, services and projects. This report captures the highlights.

Overview of papers as presented during the Innovating Higher Education Conference 2021 3 - 5 November in Bari (IT)