Abstract: The article argues that the challenge for e-learning in higher education is to support competence development rather than knowledge transfer. This is often difficult for e-learning in higher education scenarios because so far the way it is used in many cases is not designed to support competence development but rather to distribute learning materials. Two different modes of e-learning organisation are established and described: a distributive and the collaborative e-learning mode. It is argued that a collaborative mode stimulates more potentials for competence development than the distributive mode.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7908-1624-8_40 

Abstract: [UD Ehlers 2018:] Quality development in e-learning becomes more and more important. A variety of quality approaches have been developed to improve educational processes in this field. The implementation of these approaches, however, often lacks success. One important reason is that experiences and recommendations are not systematically utilized for the implementation processes. The following article suggests a formal approach to collect and share experiences and recommendations to help users of quality approaches enhance their success by reusing experiences of others. Based on knowledge management principles, the contextualization of experiences will help to transfer them from one specific situation to a different context. The suggested approach is a result of the European Quality Observatory, an analysis and information platform for quality approaches in European e-learning.