Sustainable Environment for the Evaluation of Quality in eLearning

The Sustainable Environment for the Evaluation of Quality in eLearning (SEEQUEL) was selected in 2002, and funded from 1 January 2003 until 30 September 2004 by the European Commission, DG Education and Culture under the eLearning initiative.

The SEEQUEL web site is at http://www.education-observatories.net/seequel/

Summary

According to the original project description:

The SEEQUEL project originates from the joint initiative of the e-Learning Industry Group (eLIG) and of a number of European expert organizations and associations at all levels of education and training, coordinated by the MENON Network...

This project aims to establish a European eLearning Quality forum that will address the following issues:

• Quality assessment, evaluation and conformance practice
• Cases of "good practice" and design guidelines
• Quality assurance frameworks (with criteria and standards)

Outcomes

The three core results of SEEQUEL are:

• The European eLearning quality Forum, a state of the art web platform where the different eLearning quality stakeholders can meet to discuss, exchange, debate and present their approaches and priorities in the field;
• The SEEQUEL core quality Framework, an integrated set of quality criteria that, by combining different sectors, roles and visions of the world, is able to bring into a stakeholder picture of quality the other categories views;
• The European eLearning quality Laboratory, a priority-setting environment able to transform the needs and the problems raised in the Forum into priorities for action and to design, through an intense experts working groups dynamic, the appropriate tools to face the users needs. For more info on the lab please contact Fabio Nascimbeni at fabio.nascimbeni@menon.org.
• The eLearners Quality Guide: an extremely usable collection of guidelines and hints able to guide the novice as well as the expert eLearner in any decision process about eLearning.

Thanks to the three above results, during the project it has been possible to understand the main needs around eLearning quality and the approaches and positions of the different groups of stakeholders, and to filter these needs through the Quality Lab working groups and through the Core Quality framework criteria. Following this process, four tools have been produced:

   * The (e)Learners Bill of Rights: a chart of fundamental rights of the (e)learner that, in prospective, every eLearning material/service should comply with to be considered of quality.
   * The eLearners Quality Guide: an extremely usable collection of guidelines and hints able to guide the novice as well as the expert eLearner in any decision process about eLearning.
   * The Quality guide to the non-formal and informal learning processes: a guide conceived to encourage the adoption of quality approaches within less structured and more informal learning environments.
   * A Quality tool for industry decision makers: a step-by-step iterative tool that can help industry and SMEs decision makers facing an eLearning related problem to look at the issue from a multiple perspective, taking into account a comprehensive set of criteria. For more info on the lab please contact Fabio Nascimbeni at fabio.nascimbeni@menon.org.

Partners

• MENON - Belgium - Co-ordinator
• The eLearning Industry Group, eLIG - Belgium
• European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) - Greece
• European Distance and E-Learning Network, EDEN - Hungary
• The European Institute for e-Learning (EIfEL) - France
• EuroPACE - Belgium
• The National Unions of Students in Europe (ESIB)] - Belgium
• University of Reading - UK
• University of Edinburgh - UK

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