The international quality label for elearning courseware
Self-paced eLearning products and services are mainly based on
courseware. Already now, the worldwide market reached $32.1 billion -
with a five-year compound annual growth rate of 9.2% according to
Ambient Insight!
In short: There is already a huge provision of eLearning courseware
out there, and every day different kind of new material like Web Based
Training (WBT), Computer Based Training (CBT), Game Based Learning
(GBL), Videos, Open Educational Resources (OER), Mobile Learning Apps
etc. are added. For the learner it becomes very difficult to distinguish
what is of good quality and worth buying.
epprobate (from the Latin 'approbare', to approve) is the first
international quality label for eLearning courseware. This quality label
is an initiative of three organisations: The
Learning Agency Network (LANETO), the
Agence Wallonne des Télécommunication (AWT) and the
e-Learning Quality Service Center (eLQSC). We are currently represented in around 30 countries.
Quality is becoming more and more important for individuals, and the market is growing very fast. The hard issues today is not to find information and resources, the hard issues are about quality, trust, confidence and to see and learn what´s in it for me.
I am now a Certified Head Reviewer at epprobate and a national expert on quality for elearning courseware.
Ebba Ossiannilsson, Lund University, Sweden
www.epprobate.com
se@epprobate.com
