EQUIPE Quality Learning Tool

Abstract

EQUIPE - European Quality in Indvidualised learning Pathways in Education - is a project put together by EUCEN in response to a call from the European Commission for proposals under the Grundtvig programme in 2002/3. The phrase - individualised learning pathways - came from the call document but was not defined clearly. Our proposal for a Grundtvig 4 network focussing on quality in university lifelong learning (ULLL), argued that adults in LLL programmes in universities tend to have different needs, motivations and expectations from young people in the mainstream of university provision but also that, even in the same course or programme they would also be more heterogenous than the young people who enter university from secondary education. Their heterogenity and the flexible responses that university develop to meet their needs mean that there are implications for quality assurance which do not necessarily apply to the mainstream. It used conclusions of project EQUAL coordinated by EUCEN - http://www.eucen.eu/post/equipe-.