Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission (TVEC) as the apex body for quality assurance and accreditation in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector in Sri Lanka, embarks on Development of Quality Standard for eLearning Courses in TVET Sector. This project was handled with the support and leadership of the TVEC UNEVOC Centre.

Delivery of TVET courses through distance learning, eLearning and blended learning have now been popularizing in Sri Lanka. A wide use of these methods makes it possible to ensure equal possibilities of receiving an education and of a continuous further training for all people regardless of their place of residence, social and economic status.

Quality assurance of eLearning courses in TVET sector in Sri Lanka is a responsibility of TVEC as the apex body. Development of quality standards has been a long felt need for accreditation of eLearning courses. To fulfill this requirement, TVEC has developed quality standards with the stakeholder participation including private sector and public sector training organizations, industry and universities by benchmarking ECB Quality Check in Europe. Necessary training on eLearning development and implementation and ECB quality check was provided by GIZ (former InWEnt) in Germany.

Presentation and an initial discussion in this regard was held on 1st April 2013 at TVEC Conference Room, 3rd Floor, “Nipunatha Piyasa”.

Development and implementation of eLearning standards for TVET sector in Sri Lanka is now being implemented by TVEC in line with center registration and course accreditation. Developed standard and the criteria can be downloaded from TVEC web http://www.tvec.gov.lk .