Learning from experience - towards a formal model for contextualization of experiences for quality development

Quality development in e-learning becomes more and more important. A lot of approaches have been developed to improve educational processes in this field. The implementation of these approaches however often lacks success, the decision for an appropriate approach is difficult. The following article suggests a formal approach to collect experiences and recommendations to help users of quality approaches enhance their success. The contextualization of experiences will help to transfer them from one specific situation to a different context. The suggested approach is a development of the European Quality Observatory, an observatory platform for quality approaches in European e-learning.