e-Quality in e-Learning Research Laboratoire

EQUEL stands for "e-quality in e-learning" and is intended to be a virtual centre of excellence for innovation and research in e-learning for higher post-compulsary education. The aim of the EQUEL project is to foster European knowledge and understanding of the effects of e-learning practice, theory and philosophy through building a research and practitioner network of experts working in the field.

This will primaly be achieved through the establishment of 7 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) co-ordinated by members of the consortium. It is proposed that each SIGs will each be based on essentially the same principles or common framework, which can then be adapted as seen best by members of the SIG. The common framework for the SIGs is; . They will each be coodinated by one of the partner institutions but will invole all other partners interested in the topic or theme of the SIG.