How our Accreditation Management System can assure and enhance the Quality of Higher Education
In today’s fast-paced world, Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) are preparing graduates to make meaningful contributions to society via their research and creative endeavors. Continuous quality improvement has become crucial to ensure that the educational institution achieves the learning outcomes and that the education meets the minimum standards.
Quality assurance and Quality improvement both are necessary for HEIs to build the overall character of graduates. HEIs are always required to ensure that they maintain an acceptable quality standard and keep devising the processes to find the gaps and work on the same with the help of regular internal as well as external reviews.
Accreditation is a quality stamp of approval showing that an institute, program, or course has been evaluated and found to be of sufficient quality. The thorough procedures for accreditation involve gathering and arranging data over a period of years and producing multi-level self-analysis reports to iteratively compare standards. We at iCloudEMS help HEIs to leverage our cutting-edge products and services in aligning their administrative and non-administrative workflow for the best educational management.
HEIs encounter numerous obstacles along the way to accreditation, including repetitious data collection, formatting, data privacy, and the creation of self-assessment and evaluation reports. When the entire data and reports are consolidated over multiple years, the complexity of these processes increases.
iCloudEMS offers a cloud-based Accreditation Management System to generate, gather, organize, and manage all necessary data and reports in the specified forms provided by regulatory authorities like the NAAC, NBA, etc. with the following special features:
- Accreditation bodies demand the evaluation of data and report over a couple of years. Manual organization of such huge databases is time-consuming and error-prone. But we promise to simplify the problem with our cloud-based solution that enables data administration and formatting that complies with rules.
- Accreditation starts with the compilation of self-assessment and self-analysis reports. We save your important time and effort and get your all-important reports ready with a couple of clicks only.
- Before a peer team’s visit, data must be uploaded to accreditation portals; our special features make this process simpler, including the option to utilize prefilled data on the portal throughout the multi-year data collecting process.
- Data is required to be entered as answers to pre-set questions based on specified parameters, and the pre-defined questionnaires are in compliance with various standards of accrediting agencies. We provide digital assistance to make it simpler and only need to submit data and outcomes.
- We support faculty members by automating the creation of the primary self-assessment reports as well as different supplemental reports during accreditation examinations and qualification analyses.
- Using chronologically organized data compilation and management, our experienced database verification team explores the standards and criteria to be verified.
- Institutes may quickly analyze the benchmarking criteria and get a quick read on the current situation using our tiered assessment technique.
- Our user-friendly solution helps to govern bodies perform an accurate and thorough audit of well-organized data and reports with only a few clicks.
We aid in streamlining the accreditation process of HEIs and ensure all the standard quality standards are compiled and evaluated correctly in line with the norms of regulatory bodies. We are always ready to join hands with HEIs and enhance their digital competence such that the best quality education practices can be adapted at par with the standards of governing bodies.
How iCloudEMS can be a key enabler to promote OBE in Higher Education Institutes
In today’s fast-paced world, the outcome of learning is assessed according to the comprehensive development of an individual. Thus, to address the worldwide needs of 21st-century society, tertiary education must educate graduates with professional knowledge/skills and all-around qualities.
Nowadays, various countries’ higher education institutes emphasize continuous quality improvement by reforming their curriculum, planning, and assessing learning outcomes at all levels. The accomplishment of outcomes is believed to be analyzed using evidence of learning to ensure learning outcomes are met.
Outcome-based education (OBE) is a student-centric educational paradigm that directs each level of learning on the accomplishment of learning outcomes. OBE emphasizes professional knowledge, skills, talents, values, and attitudes over the educational process.
OBE is a student-centered strategy that fosters hands-on learning opportunities to improve the information, skills, and personality qualities that students acquire at the conclusion of a program or course. Curriculum, pedagogy, and evaluation procedures are completely focused on expected goals to be accomplished by students after completion of their course or program.
Students assume more responsibility for their educational pursuits under OBE implementation and can work more actively in line with their learning trajectory. Teachers also get feedback on the effectiveness of the teaching and learning strategies they use in the classroom via outcome-based assessment.
The teaching methods used in the OBE paradigm are tailored to each student’s unique requirements and are mandated to use active pedagogical techniques to empower real-world, technology-driven, field-based abilities that may illustrate the relationship between theory and its applications.
The assessment techniques include practical assessment techniques such as open book assessments, assignments, project demonstrations, and others that may demonstrate how well objectives have been reached and, ultimately skill set and values in learners.
We at iCloudEMS understand the 21st-century education demands and facilitate Higher Education Institutes to empower a learner-centric education system that can well prepare graduates to contribute in a globalized knowledge-driven world. Our key cutting-edge features and services include;
- A cloud-based server that can store a lot of data and records for easy record management, enabling instructors to keep track of how their students are doing with their course objectives.
- Time-saving tools for attendance management, assignment submission that automate the design of schedules, publication of assignments, and results reporting for academic staff.
- Digital course baskets that simplify the choice of courses and their allocation according to the Choice Based Credit System for a flexible and dynamic learning environment.
- OBE-LMS promotes an outcomes-oriented culture by developing interesting course materials and tasks using innovative approaches for accurately mapping and designing course outcomes.
- Our Accreditation management system automates OBE-assisted executions and digitizes the foundational work to save up staff time and resources from completing repetitive, tiresome duties.
- Student-lifecycle management system, which allows users to quickly and easily access all aspects of a student’s academic career and fosters an environment for continuous quality improvement.
- A system for online classes and exams that encourages the strategic execution of OBE in all pre-and post-exam tasks, from creating question banks to disseminating final results, with utmost care to developing and outlining every component with outcomes.
In a nutshell, iCloudEMS digitizes all-academic and non-academic functions of Higher Education Institutes to develop and establish a student-centric culture. We make you embrace the OBE paradigm in educational processes and systems that prepare the youth to think beyond academics and reflect real-life characteristics to enter the globalized workforce.