Creating a standard of excellence for e-learning
“E-xcellence” is the name of the project that EADTU has started in January 2005 with the support of the eLearning Programme of the European Commission (DG Education and Culture).
Goal: to set a standard for Quality in e-learning. The project is a cooperation between 13 significant partners in the European scene of higher education e-learning and Quality assessment and accreditation.
Improving e-learning ultimately supports the Bologna objectives (“e-Bologna”), since it is bound to be a core approach in most courses and curricula: create better access to European higher education at all levels and in all domains both in mainstream continuing education, ensure cooperation between universities, and raise the competitiveness of European universities. All this in line with the process of creating a European Area of Higher Education by the European universities.
The main objective of the E-xcellence project is to contribute to this process by creating
standards of excellence in e-learning as:
- Assessment tool (programme and institutional level)
- Improvement tool (internal quality care system)
- Tool for accreditation for excellence
The result of accreditation on e-learning will be an indication of the degree of excellence in Lifelong Open and Flexible (LOF) Learning and combined with a label of excellence for institutions, as far as the “E-“ in e-learning is concerned. It will be a specific scope, next to content, within the overall assessment process.
The project will start with a Kick-Off meeting on the 27th and 28th of January 2005 in Brussels. Final results are expected at the annual EADTU conference in November 2006
EADTU, OUUK, OUNL, OULU, CNED, UOC, UNED, EITSA, APERTUS, NETTUNO, EUA, eLIG, NVAO
George Ubachs (EADTU)
 +31 45 5762977
 george.ubachs@eadtu.nl
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