Refreshing the eLearning guidelines

Realigning rhetoric and reality

Abstract

First launched in 2005, the New Zealand eLearning Guidelines (NZeLgs) provided a set of questions to drive improvement in the tertiary sector’s capability to deliver eLearning. This paper describes a joint AKO Aotearoa/New Zealand Tertiary College (NZTC) funded project which has updated and enhanced the guidelines (eLg) for the tertiary sector during 2013 /2014 and which now provides access via a new website: (www.elg.ac.nz). The guidelines provide prompts for good practice as a guide to designing, implementing and enhancing eLearning for an expanded range of participants in the process – the learner, the teacher, the manager, the organisational leader and quality assurance bodies. The process of how the refreshed guidelines came to be will be shared, along with the principles underpinning the prompts for each of the different perspectives which have been designed to foster quality provision of eLearning for the sector.