ENLIGHT Methodology for the Impact Assessment of Higher Education Initiatives

Abstract

[EN] This paper presents the ENLIGHT methodology for impact assessment of higher education activities, including the lessons learnt and the conclusions drawn from its testing with three case studies on challenge-based education, mobility and regional academies. The ENLIGHT methodology for impact assessment is designed as a sequential and circular process, structured in six phases which are interrelated and retrofitting the next ones. It builds upon a co-creative process between the ENLIGHT Impact Task Force, action leaders and stakeholders, in order to explore the expected outcomes and desired impacts, capture and manage those changes on learners, academic and non-academic staff, institutions, systems and society. The ENLIGHT methodology has the potential to be taken as a reference in the assessment of the impact of higher education activities and can be used for the establishment of a model impact-direct planning and management in higher education.