3.2 Select a range of ICT-based materials to support learning

Table of Contents

1. Selection criteria
2. Learning packages available within own organisation
3. Sourcing learning packages outside own organisation
4. Learning on the Internet
5. Devising a learning plan
6. Progression opportunities

Selection criteria

You must take all the information obtained from the client into account so that you can identify learning packages which will meet the criteria. You will match learning packages against such criteria as:

• Does the subject matter match the client's desired study topic?

• Is certification available if the client desires this?

• Does the length of the learning package fit with the time available for the client to learn?

• Can the client afford any costs associated with the learning?

• Does the learning package address any special needs of the client?

• Is the level of the learning suitable in terms of both starting competence (ie: neither too easy nor too difficult) and final competence achieved at the end of learning?

• Can the client undertake this learning without enhancement of their existing ICT skills? If not, can the library supply additional support for ICT skills development in order to enable the client to undertake the chosen learning package?

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