Research Reviews

This week’s research review about Training and internet access complements last week’s research review of Children and internet access about the access, use and impact of digital technologies for children from 5 years to 14 years. The training sector has long led education and training in Australia in the use of digital technologies in courses and has been encouraged by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (AFLF) and its sub-committees. The AFLF, since 2005, have undertaken a number of E-Learning Benchmarking Surveys seeking the views of training institutions, employers, teachers and students. In 2011, the AFLF has produced a report titled 2011 E-Learning Benchmarking Survey: Final Report. The report is based on an online opinion based survey of 6000 student respondents of which nearly 4000 were used in a balanced analysis about the access, use and impact of digital technologies in Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) including Registered Training Organisations (RTOs).