DS CWA 15661:2007

Providing E-Learning supplies transparency profiles

Scope

The target audience of this CWA are all stakeholders of the E-Learning lifecycle, such as course authors,
providers, trainers/tutors and as important learners. The action is supported by consumer councils
(ANEC) which specifically require these activities from the learners’ perspective. Other stakeholders will
be included by multipliers, such as eLIG (E-Learning Industry Group), academic associations and
selected quality projects (e.g. from the E-Learning initiative and the IST programmes of the European
Commission). The CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technology Standards will include the key
stakeholders to ensure the maximum consensus rate and acceptance.
All key stakeholders for the learning process are involved in the work on the adaptation guidelines based
on the forth-coming ISO quality standard, specifically in this context, learners, content providers, service
providers, consultants, trainers, tutors and administration are involved. The activity will show different
implementations to promote the European diversity of E-Learning quality approaches. Therefore,
European requirements are included and promoted. The result will help to harmonise quality approaches,
as well as maintaining diversity and individualisation. The results will then be fed into the global
standardisation in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36.
This CWA is one of three CWAs developed by the Project Team Quality workgroup.
CWA1 provides good practice for implementing E-Learning quality approaches. It results directly from
experiences when applying quality strategies into practice mostly from a decision makers-perspective.
This CWA (CWA2) aims at enhancing the quality of E-learning supplies by giving purchasers – from
individual learners to third parties and funding bodies - help and guidance in their decision making
process and in their communication with E-Learning providers. Its resulting LST (Learning Supplies