Planning decisions
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- What management decisions need to be taken? Decisions about....
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- What additional information may they need to make decisions?
- What is the current position?
- What our training needs are.
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- Methods and tools for training needs analysis
- Forecasts of future industry skill needs
- What was the learning problem or need?
- Who does the learning problem or need affect and in what way?
- How was this identified? By whom? Through what processes?
- Ways of recognising and building on previous work and not reinventing the wheel
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- Position audit
- Who is doing what else to try and solve this problem in the company?
- What other measures have been tried in the past and to what effect?
- Accrediting /certificating learning outcomes
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- Benefits for and against accreditation
- What is the balance between individual versus organisational needs?
- Are there external requirements for accreditation e.g. from funding bodies, Chambers of Commerce, organisations in supply chain
- Considering e-learning, rather than traditional learning as an appropriate response to a particular issue
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- List of possibilities with advantages, disadvantages
- What non-ICT options are available?
- What non-ICT based options were edited out and why?
- Finding out what human expertise is needed
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- Who provides this information for SME
- Scoping study
- What range of ICT options were explored in terms of
- Provider availability (in house and external)?
- Provider pedagogical competence (in-house and external)?
- Provider ICT competence (in-house and external)?
- Finding out what technology and e-learning content exists
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- Where help is available
- Scoping /feasibility study
- What range of ICT options were explored in terms of availability of technology ?
- shelf life of the technology?
- competence in the technology?
- Availability of e-materials and content?
- Need for back up and support
- Finding out what it all costs
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- Cost benefit analysis tools
- Sources of financial support
- Implications of choosing vendors /technologies e.g. technology lock-ins
- What are the costs associated with
- Providers?
- Technology?
- Materials?
- Establishing what is and what is not possible at the moment
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- What ICT based options were edited out and why?
- What ICT based options were selected and why?
- Identifying the limitations we are working under in terms of e-learning
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- What compromises were made?
- Determining whose responsibility it is and who should be involved.
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- What consultation processes and tools exist?
- Information about different forms of work organisation
- Who participated in the decision making process?
- Why and how and by whom were these judgements finally made?
- Was the decision making process effective?
- Could they be improved?
- Defining training issues clearly and focussing the e-learning solutions
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- What remaining issues / unresolved problems were recognised?
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