Presentation to the ACODE 64 Business meeting on the future state of the ACODE Benchmarks, March 2014.

1. ACODE Benchmarking:
Plotting a bright future
Associate Professor Michael Sankey
Director, Learning Environments and Media
Member ACODE Executive

2. The ACODE Benchmarks
http://acode.edu.au/mod/page/view.php?id=23

3. Original 8 ACODE Benchmarks
1. Institution policy and governance for technology
supported learning and teaching
2. Planning for, and quality improvement of the
integration of technologies for learning and teaching
3. Information technology infrastructure to support
learning and teaching
4. Pedagogical application of information and
communication technology
5. Professional/staff development for the effective use of
technologies for learning and teaching
6. Staff support for the use of technologies for learning
and teaching
7. Student training for the effective use of technologies for
learning
8. Student support for the use of technologies for learning

4. Other tools to line up your ducks
 E-Learning Maturity Model (eMM)
 Quality Matters Framework (QM) & Sloan 5 Pillars
 Standards for Online Education
 Quality Management of Online Learning
Environments (OLE)
 E-xcellence, EADTU – building of an eLearning
benchmarking community
 The Pick and Mix Model
 ICDE
 CADAD Benchmarks
 VET E-standards
 HEA eLearning Benchmarks URL
 Others?

5. New Benchmarks
 Merging of a few of the Performance Indicators
 Addition of a couple of new ones.
 One around on how institutions are dealing with
new and emerging technologies. How they plan and
fund them, an innovation pipeline.
 One around how institutions are managing their
relationships with external providers of core
systems and services.
 One around BYOD and service expectations.
 One around institutions adopting an e-learning
framework or standards, at a course level, so as to
meet reporting obligations to national quality
agencies.

6. The beauty of the beast
 The new Benchmarks shift the emphasis to
technology enhanced learning, rather than it being
on e-learning.
 The beautify of benchmarking is not in which tool
or set of standards are used, it's about the
dialogue that emerges and the sharing of practice
that is the real winner for all concerned.
 It opens the door for further collaboration.
 It serves as a mechanism to facilitate discussion
at senior leadership level.
 Yes you could use any tool, but we already have a
well-established community of practice in ACODE –
so we go with our strengths

7. Those involved

8. ACODE Inter-Institutional
Benchmarking Summit
 Universities benchmarking their capacity in
technology enhanced learning.
 1-3 June 2014
 Hosted by Macquarie University – Sydney –
Australia.
 Two day intensive where universities have self-
assessed their capacity in technology enhanced
learning, using the New ACODE Benchmarks, and
are then willing to share their practice and learn
from others.