D7.3.2

=Staff are provided with support resources (including training, guidelines and examples) on creating and adapting reusable e-learning resources. =

Evidence
Teaching staff should be provided with training and support in the creation and reuse of resources as well as incentives to both create reusable resources in the first place as well as enable reuse.

Littlejohn (2003) reports the responses of e-learning support staff to new developments in the reuse of learning objects. Academics need clear support in designing, assembling and implementing courses. This support will include technologies, network systems and organizational structures. Links to external support structures will be part of this package. Inconsistencies in support have arisen due to the large number of support units. Staff are sometimes thinking about reusing content, but support in reusing student activities and course designs can be facilitated too.

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.