Hou Angela Yung Chi, Lu I-Jung Grace, Hill Christopher
College of Education, National Chengchi University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
Institute of Teacher Education, Tung Hai University, Taichung City, Taiwan.
High Educ Policy. 2022;35(3):568-590. doi: 10.1057/s41307-022-00267-z. Epub 2022 Mar 14.
The impact of COVID-19 on higher education and quality assurance (QA) has already elicited global attention and discussion. QA agencies and networks quickly learned to adapt in order to carry out assessments, accreditations, recognitions, and reviews in a full virtual mode. These practices include using shared folders for virtual desk review, video conferencing platforms for interviews, and virtual site visits. In order to respond to the 2020 pandemic, The International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) swiftly adopted a virtual mode of the GGP review exercise for the GGP alignment applicants. The Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT) was the first case that underwent a thorough virtual review process of GGP alignment during the 2020 pandemic. Therefore, this study aims to outline the impact of the pandemic in Taiwan higher education as well as provide the meta-analysis of the virtual review process of the INQAAHE GGP alignment by using HEEACT as a case study.
新冠疫情对高等教育及质量保证（QA）的影响已引发全球关注与讨论。质量保证机构和网络迅速学会适应，以便在完全虚拟模式下开展评估、认证、认可和审查工作。这些做法包括使用共享文件夹进行虚拟案头审查、利用视频会议平台进行面试以及进行虚拟实地考察。为应对2020年的疫情，国际高等教育质量保证机构网络（INQAAHE）迅速为全球治理项目（GGP）对齐申请者采用了GGP审查活动的虚拟模式。台湾高等教育评鉴中心（HEEACT）是在2020年疫情期间首个经历GGP对齐全面虚拟审查过程的案例。因此，本研究旨在概述疫情对台湾高等教育的影响，并以HEEACT为案例研究，对INQAAHE的GGP对齐虚拟审查过程进行元分析。
