E-learning Benchmarking

Project Background

The Australian Flexible Learning Framework (the Framework) has established a set of 12 e-learning indicators that can be used to assess the uptake, use and impact of e-learning in Australia’s vocational education and training system (VET). These indicators can be adapted and used by individual education and training providers and State Training Authorities to establish their own organisational goals and benchmarks for e-learning.

The E-learning Benchmarking Project 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. The surveys illustrate trends in the uptake and impact of e-learning on skills and employment and the use of e-business services. The 2007 survey results are now available.

The E-learning Benchmarking Project 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.