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E-learning quality is often approached in terms of content or resources, whereas quality is ultimately dependent on the decisions and behaviours of learning and teaching practitioners and participants. The quality of resources needs to be framed within and guided by an understanding of the broader quality of learning activity. Current quality criteria and evaluation methods may not be appropriate in new situations. Moreover, perception of quality often depends heavily on context and local culture, making the development of wide-ranging quality criteria difficult on a transnational scale.

This second thematic dossier deals with the issue of quality criteria for e-learning following on from presentations and discussions at the Policy and Innovation Committee (PIC) meeting in Birmingham (16–17 October 2005) that took place in conjunction with the first Xchange conference. [download PDF]

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06 December 2005 I Professor John Anderson A Common Framework for E-learning Quality This paper and that which follows it are linked. They report two significant and generic contributions to the work of better understanding the pedagogic quality of e-learning. The work has been developed for Becta, the strategic education and communications technology agency for... Full article		07 December 2005 I Alan McCluskey The Quest for Quality in E-learning Evaluation is key to any form of innovation. There needs to be a proper fit between values and goals and innovation. Evaluation serves to measure whether outcomes correspond to expectations, and to reassure funders and investors that their investment has been worthwhile. Assessing... Full article

06 December 2005 I Pr. John Anderson and Pr Robert McCormick Ten Pedagogic Principles for E-learning This paper follows from the preceding paper on the common quality framework for e-learning. It focuses upon the pedagogic aspects of the framework and articulates a set of ten core principles which express, in an economic and elegant fashion, the underpinning values that can apply... Full article		06 December 2005 I Liisa Lind Defining the Quality of Online Learning Materials in Finland The Finnish national strategy for education, training and research in the information society has reached its third programme period. The period 2004–2006 emphasises e-learning and improving its accessibility and quality at all levels of education. The Finnish National Board... Full article

06 December 2005 I Frans van Assche and Riina Vuorikari A European Schoolnet Framework for Quality of Learning Resources This short summary of the paper “A Framework for Quality of Learning Resources”, which appears in European Handbook for Quality [CEDEFOP 2006], looks into the different processes of a typical usage scenario of a digital learning resource (figure 1) and identifies major... Full article		06 December 2005 I Erik Duval LearnRank: the Real Quality Measure for Learning Materials This article(1) starts from the notion that “quality” is not so much a characteristic of a learning object(2), but rather a characteristic of how such an object is used in a particular context. Many facets influence the quality of a learning object in a particular context:... Full article

07 December 2005 I Ken Dyson The Common Evaluation Framework in England The Common Evaluation Framework (CEF) aims to assist schools in coming to an objective view of the extent to which ICT is embedded in their practice. The framework covers policy, planning and practice to maximise the potential of ICT to enhance all aspects of a school’s work,... Full article		07 December 2005 I Riina Vuorikari Triangle, the Back Office of the European Foundation for Quality in E-learning This paper presents the TRIANGLE project, the European Foundation for Quality in e-learning and focuses on a Special Interest Groups on the Framework for Quality of Learning resources. TRIANGLE is an e-learning programme project founded by the European Commission within the call... Full article