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the project
Aims
The general aim of the project is to promote the use of the new
multimedia technologies and a guidance and counselling approach
in order to improve the quality of learning by facilitating access
to online resources and training services as well as tools to evaluate
the quality and the return on investment in e-learning targeted
in SME’S from the trade and services sector.
The project specific aims are:
- To evaluate the SME’s organizational requirements, quality
criteria and attitudes towards distance learning
- To assemble the connection between the offer and the demand
of distance learning courses for the trade and services sector
- To create Project Local Committees involving the end users in
order to validate the project outputs
- To assemble the criteria for evaluating quality in e-learning
courses target to SME’s
- To train training consultants on e-learning quality and ROI
methodology
- To adapt the ROI methodology to the e-learning context
- To benchmark best practices of e-learning courses target to
the trade sector, focused on the special needs of SME’s managers,
owners and other decision makers
- To select quality criteria and ROI methodology requirements
- To test the ROI Methodology for the e-Learning Courses
- To evaluate the ROI of the e-learning and to disseminate it
near to the end users according to the valorisation plan
- To create a Guide to conceive and evaluate e-learning courses
for SME’s entrepreneurs, oriented to a business strategy
- To conceived a Guide target to the training providers from the
public and private sector in order to help them to develop, implement
and evaluate sustainable and competitive solutions
- To disseminate the e-learning methodology near SME’s through
training consultants’ guidance and counselling using ROI
as a quality measurement tool
Partnership
Promoter:
CECOA – Vocational training
Centre for the trade (Portugal)
Partners:
BFI - Austria
Berufsforderungsinstitut (Austria)
Forschungsinstitut Betriebliche Bildung
(f-bb) gGmbH (Germany)
University of Tartu, Distance Education
Centre (Estonia)
Confederació de
Comerç de Calalunya (Spain)
ProfitWise (Netherlands)
NKI Distance Education (Norway)
Products
- State of the Art Report on Distance Learning Quality for SME’s
- Criteria for Evaluating Quality in e-Learning
- Guide for Training Consultants: e-Learning Quality and ROI Methodology
- Training Profile: Training Consultant Performance Improvement
Programme
- ROI Methodology for E-Learning Courses
- Guide to Conceive and Evaluate e-Learning Courses for SME’s
Entrepreneurs
- Guide to Conceive and Evaluate e-Learning Courses for Training
Providers
- Project Quality Management Plan
- Project Valorisation Plan
Duration
November, 2005 – November, 2007
Framework
Leonardo da Vinci Programme – Pilot Projects
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the
Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made
of the information contained therein.
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