EFQUEL

European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning

Institution	European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning (EFQUEL)
Location	Rue des Deux Eglises 35, Brussels, Belgium
Established	2005
President	Ulf Ehlers
Members	120
Website	http://www.efquel.org/

The European Foundation for Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL) was a not-for-profit organisation which was legally established on June 30, 2005 and is based in Brussels, Belgium. It was a worldwide membership network with over 120 member organisations including universities, corporations and national agencies. The purpose of the foundation was to create a European community of users and experts to share experiences of eLearning. Two of the main initiatives of the foundation were the "UNIQUe" accreditation for Quality in e-Learning and the annual EFQUEL Forum.

The European Federation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL) was a Non-Profit Association which had its origins in three successful European eLearning projects, all in the field of quality in E-Learning in Europe. EFQUEL approached quality in E-Learning from complementary perspectives and developed full-scale services for all educational fields, regional contexts and target groups. The Federation provided support, transparency, open participation and leadership for a broad range of topics.

Over the years, EFQUEL developed a quality portfolio that covered the quality of both products and programmes in the field of technology-enhanced learning:

In Q1 2012, more than 120 organisations participated in EFQUEL's network. These included universities like the KULeuven,United Nations University, University of Jyväskylä, Politecnico Milano -METID, Vytautas Magnus University, University of Belgrade, the Universita Oberta de Cataluniya, and 50 more universities, also corporations such as Toshiba Europe or Adobe, other European networks and political bodies

EFQUEL closed at the end of 2014.

However the web site is still available and in particular there is a long list of Publications and Papers that can be downloaded.

Unfortunately it seems that the pages for the EFQUEL Journal INNOQUAL are no longer available.

EFQUEL was governed by a board of directors of currently 12 people (2012). There is a list at the time that EFQUEL closed.

EFQUEL's main activities involved the creation and operation of e-learning tools and labels, as well as the organisation of the yearly EFQUEL Innovation Forum - a multidisciplinary conference which brought together experts in learning from around the world to discuss the latest innovations in learning and teaching.

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