E-learning Benchmarking

Project Background

The Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework) has established a set of e-learning indicators that can be used to assess the uptake, use and impact of e-learning in Australia’s vocational education and training (VET) system. These indicators can be adapted and used by individual education and training providers and states and territories to establish their own organisational goals and benchmarks for e-learning.

The Benchmarking and Research business activity is an initiative of the Framework. From 2005 it has undertaken annual national surveys of the uptake and use of e-learning by employers, training organisations, VET students and VET teachers/trainers. The surveys illustrate trends in the uptake and impact of e-learning on skills and employment and the use of e-business services. The 2008 survey results are now available.

The Benchmarking and Research business activity has also developed templates and tools to support training organisations to gather data on e-learning and benchmark their e-learning outcomes.

Strategies are being pursued to embed the e-learning indicators into national and ongoing data collection processes to allow the longer-term capture and use of relevant information on e-learning uptake and impact.