Open ECBCheck is a new accreditation and quality improvement scheme for E-Learning programmes and institutions in international Capacity Building. It supports capacity building organisations to measure how successful their e-learning programmes are and allows for continuous improvement though peer collaboration and benchlearning. Open ECBCheck forms a participative quality environment which allows its members to benefit in a variety of ways by having access to tools and guidelines for their own practice on the one hand, and being able to obtain a community based label on the other hand. Three stages to quality are suggested:

1. Members of the Open ECBCheck professional community document their commitment to quality by joining
2. The Open ECBCheck professional community provides access to and allows sharing of guidelines, tools as well as experiences for quality development for its members
3. On basis of a detailed self-assessment process, members can enter into mutual peer-review partnerships to improve the quality of their e-learning offers.

Open ECBCheck is developed from the community of organisations through an innovative and participative process which has been initiated by InWent – Capacity Building International, Germany and the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL). Over 20 organisations have meanwhile showed their interest in joining the Open ECBCheck community.

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