Planning for e-learning and e-business
Why do businesses and community organisations want to move online?
"From the beginning my specific perspective was to end up with a 'start-up' kit for micro to small sized business(es) to help them get started in flexible learning in affordable and effective ways.
"My motivation came from my business clients (mainly Registered Training Organisations) who desperately wanted to make the move online but didn’t know where to start. Naturally they wanted to do so as inexpensively as possible.
"I guess they’ve read the statistics - Marc Prensky talks about digital natives (under 25, technically savvy, on average - have had approx 10,000 hours on electronic/computer games in their lives so far, have sent 250,000 emails, watched 20,000 hours of TV, have done less than 5,000 hours of traditional reading from books, as a cohort have sent 3 mill text messages everyday, make up 50% of the world's population)." - Frankie Forsyth
Case studies in business or strategic planning
- Facing
your E-learning Fears is a 'down to earth' interview with two small RTOs
moving into e-learning. The interviewees, Kim
Edgar and Wendy
Morrow were both managing small business Registered Training Organisations
in 2004 and were part of the Flexible
Learning Leaders program. Kim Edgar is now with education.au.
- Wendy Morrow's "Strategic Planning" is a useful tool, a powerpoint presentation to accompany the interview (PPT, 1.02MB).
- Kim Edgar's Action Planning presentation notes (PDF, 193KB). Slide 4 outlines clear steps.
Action planning
The Flexible Learning Business Planning Framework (pdf) is an excellent planning tool.
Other online planning tools
You'll find plenty of information about recent uptake, on the e-learning indicators (Benchmarking) site.
The enAble website is designed for small businesses who wish to gain a greater understanding of how e-learning works, it contains quizzes on what steps to take and suggestions on how to overcome some of the barriers to implementing e-learning. It is also useful for those who require support, assistance and resources to implement e-learning. You can download the whole website onto your own computer or server. Click to download the enAble website. (You'll need to scroll down until you see the zip file icon).
You can read further innovative partnership case studies here.