Best Practice Repositories  

E-Learning Maturity Model (eMM) 
The E-Learning Maturity Model (eMM) provides a means by which institutions can assess and compare their capability to sustainably develop, deploy and support e-learning. The eMM is based on the ideas of the Capability Maturity Model and SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination) methodologies. The underlying idea that guides the development of the eMM is that the ability of an institution to be effective in any particular area of work is dependent on their capability to engage in high quality processes that are reproducible and able to be extended and sustained as demand grows.

Sloan-C Effective Practices
Sloan-C focuses on five pillars of quality in online education: student satisfaction, access, learning effectiveness, faculty satisfaction and institutional cost effectiveness. For each of these areas, pillar editors are collecting practices that are innovative and replicable. The downloadable synthesis of Effective practices covers those effective practices submitted by members that have been reviewed, approved, and listed in the Sloan-C Effective Practices online collection. The document includes links to both the provider institutions and to the full-length effective practice posting in the collection.

AUQA Good Practice Database which contains examples relating to flexible learning.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) emphasizes a number of principles that can guide the selection of pedagogies and technologies to support successful learning and links them to practices that have been found to work in an institutional setting.

Quality Assurance Toolkit for Distance Higher Education Institutions and Programmes
Commonwealth of Learning, July 2009. First, it is a generic document on quality assurance, complete with a glossary of terms used in distance learning, for use across the Commonwealth. It accommodates various institutional solutions to reflect range of delivery methods used by distance education providers. Second, it proposes performance indicators so that institutions can gauge their own performance trends, fostering continuous quality improvement in the spirit of a culture of quality. Third, it provides best practice case studies from across the Commonwealth that can serve as exemplars as institutions consider their respective situations and options.

Quality Assurance Toolkit for Open and Distance Non-Formal Education:Commonwealth of Learning, March 2012. This Quality Assurance (QA) toolkit will be a useful resource for non-formal education and training (NFE) policy makers, programme managers, in-field staff and researchers working through governmental, non-governmental and community-based organisations, development assistance agencies and funding bodies.

Quality Assurance Toolkit for Open Schools: Commonwealth of Learning, October 2010. This carefully prepared toolkit is one way of providing support as open schools develop quality assurance systems that will be the foundation of a culture of continual improvement in open schooling. We hope it will benefit open schooling by making institutions’ quality assurance practices as explicit and systematised as possible, with quality assurance policies clearly communicated amongst institutional stakeholders.