Quality in eLearning. Some result from a national research program

Quality is an open concept. Something has a good quality when the most salient of its characteristics have a positive value. What are this relevant features? It depends on the interest of who is judging the quality. Therefore the idea of quality can be separated neither from the object under examination, nor from the point of view selected by the evaluator. It is important also to choose when and how to evaluate quality. This paper -realized within the PRIN -National Interest Research Project- entitled Comunità di apprendimento per la didattica universitaria in ambienti open source1- analyses the criteria for evaluating the quality of an academic eLearning course and it claims that a quality analysis model needs to be created ad hoc for the context in which it is going to be applied. If the model we want to use was created for a different environment, it has to be carefully adapted for our one.