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=Teaching staff are provided with support resources (including training, guidelines and examples) for assessing student e-learning skills. =

Evidence
Ho et al. (2010) found that e-learning system quality and e-learning readiness influence learning outcomes indirectly through e-learners' competency. Therefore, organizations that would like to implement e-learning with their employees should focus on improving individuals' online learning skills such as self-direction, meta-cognitive, and collaborative skills.

Resources
Milne & White (2005) collect together twenty-three sets of e-learning quality guidelines from an array of geographical regions. Such guidelines, or something like them, should be part of the support offered to staff by their organizations. Staff need guidelines, and examples of good practice.

A pre-course assessment such as an e-passport test could be used to gauge student readiness for e-learning: http://www.e-skills.com/cgi-bin/go.pl/newsletters/passport_issue1_story.html?uid=935

Case studies of institutions employing e-passports can be found here: http://www.e-skills.com/public/File/e-skills%20Passport/Passport_eastleigh.pdf

http://www.e-skills.com/public/File/e-skills%20Passport/eskillspassportcasestudyv2%20copy.pdf

Course activities can then be tailored to needs.

eLearning skills training is offered e.g. by inWEnt capacity building international http://gc21.inwent.org/ibt/GC21/en/site/gc21/ibt/openGC21/courses/docs/eskills_2010.pdf

There are books specifically dealing with elearning skills: http://www.palgrave.com/Products/title.aspx?PID=281298 http://www.palgrave.com/PDFs/0230573126.Pdf