Three UNITAR Courses are Awarded with the Open ECBCheck Certification

25 September 2015, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR is proud to announce that three of its online courses have been awarded by ECBCheck certificate for 2015. The quality certificate is valid for a three-year period.

The following courses have been certified:

  • Fundamentals of Microfinance
  • Governance in Urban Sanitation
  • Human Security in Post-Conflict Interventions

At UNITAR, three more courses are in the pipeline for the Certification.

ECBCheck is a quality improvement scheme which supports organizations to measure how successful their e-Learning programmes are and allows for continuous improvement though peer collaboration and benchlearning. ECBCheck forms a participative quality environment which allows its members to benefit in a variety of ways by having access to tools and guidelines for their own practice on the one hand, and being able to obtain a community based label on the other hand.

Three stages to quality are suggested:

  • Members of the ECBCheck professional community document their commitment to quality by joining;
  • The ECBCheck professional community provides access to and allows sharing of guidelines, tools as well as experiences for quality development for its members;
  • On the basis of a detailed self-assessment process, members can enter into mutual peer-review partnerships to improve the quality of their e-Learning offers.

ECBCheck is developed from the community of organizations through an innovative and participative process which has been initiated by InWent – Capacity Building International, Germany and the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL). The ECBCheck community consists of over 20 affiliated organizations.


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