What are e-Learning skills?

To be able to effectively plan for the implementation of e-Learning you will need to establish the current e-Learning skills level of employees.

• Do you know what experience employees have of e-Learning?
• How confident do employees feel with e-Learning?
• Do employees have appropriate keyboard skills to be able to cope with the requirements of e-Learning?

You may already know the answers to the following questions:

• Do you know what access employees have to computers or other electronic devises?
• Do they have access to computers to take part in online discussions if this is a requirement of the e-Learning being implemented?
• Do you know the technical capacity of the IT equipment?

If you don't know the answers to these questions than you will need to discover them. These will have an impact on the employee’s abilities to successfully complete the e-Learning that you wish to implement.

How to take this information into account in planning?

All of the information that you gather in relation to the e-Learning skills levels of employees needs to be taken into account when planning.

This information needs to be used at all of the stages of implementation including design, delivery and support. The design and delivery will need to be appropriate for the skills levels of employees. If you are do not have control over the design of the learning you may need to build in time to up skill employees to cope with the demands of the learning. 

If the employees have mixed levels of e-Learning experience and abilities you will need to decide on an appropriate course of action. The confidence levels of learners will greatly impact on their abilities to undertake e-Learning. You will also need to consider how the confidence of learners can be increased.