eQNet - Quality Network for a European Learning Resource Exchange
01/01/2009
European teachers are increasingly using digital learning resources as part of their teaching activities. Digital learning resources are made available to teachers through educational portals and digital libraries in many European countries.
European teachers are increasingly using digital learning resources as part of their teaching activities. Digital learning resources are made available to teachers through educational portals and digital libraries in many European countries.
But can teachers use learning resources that originate from a country different than themselves? Or learning resources that are in different languages than that of the teacher or learners?
eQNET is a three-year (September 2009-2012) Comenius Multilateral Network funded under the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning programme. The project is coordinated by European Schoolnet and involves 9 Ministries of Education or agencies nominated to act of their behalf.
The primary aim is to improve the quality of educational resources in European Schoolnet’s Learning Resource Exchange for Schools that was officially launched as a public service for schools in December 2008 and which currently offers almost 130,000 learning resources/assets from over 25 providers.
As a pan-European service, the LRE particularly seeks to identify resources that ‘travel well’ across national borders and can be used in a cultural and linguistic context different from the one in which they were created. eQualityNet will do this by establishing a network consisting of policy makers and practitioners (teachers) that will develop and apply ‘travel well’ quality criteria to both existing LRE content as well as that to be selected in future from national repositories.
The vision driving the LRE is that a significant percentage of high quality resources developed in different countries, in different languages and to meet the needs of different curricula can be re-used at European level. A sustainable platform for the exchange of that content is consequently needed.
Status: Past
