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Terms of Reference
The contributing organizations of the UneLearn group commit themselves towards sharing and collaboration of expertise, content & technology to leverage resources that each organisation has individually, with the goal of increasing available learning for all member organizations.
2. Developers are encouraged to incorporate royalty free audio-visual elements (pictures, music, videos, etc). Alternatively, it is essential to reference the copyrights of all elements included in the developed courses (images, videos, music, content and inserted documents).
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Ensuring compatibility
3. The developed material should be SCORM 1.2 compliant to ensure compatibility with the largest number of existing learning management systems.
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4. Developers are encouraged to incorporate all on-screen text in HTML or XML to ensure that content can be updated / modified / translated easily. Design elements (pictures, drawings and flash animations) should therefore include as little text as possible.
5. Course developers should ensure that all design elements are made available (when using external developers, all production files should be obtained and not just the final SCORM package).
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Ensuring quality
6. Open ECBCheck is a new accreditation and quality improvement scheme for ELearning programmes and institutions in international Capacity Building. It
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supports capacity building organisations to measure how successful their elearning programmes are and allows for continuous improvement though peer collaboration and benchmarking. OpenECBCheck works on the basis of a peer self-assessment. You can get further information directly on the website: http://www.efquel.org/openecbcheck/ It is encouraged that UN organizations use peer assessments to review content from other members.
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7. Contributing organisations are encouraged to list their courses and planned projects / areas of interest through the following form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform? hl=en&formkey=dDNyTXhPXzRoMnJ6NDF0MGZvLTdrQUE6MA
I. Membership
A flexible membership model is proposed to allow members to choose the level of commitment that they can support: 1. Level 1 Sharing of existing expertise, content and technology 2. Level 2 Collaboration on joint projects with shared budgets The membership will also state whether the organization requires cost recovery for the above models.
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Governance model
The group is to consist of a voluntary core team (with a rotating chair). The role of the core team is to ensure: 1. Facilitation of ongoing collaboration through online discussions and regular UNeLearn meetings 2. Recruiting of new members into the group
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