Retail Industry Project and Collaboration

The Retail Industry project that we are participating in in partnership with Retail Traders of WA under the Australian Flexible Learning Framework has provided some useful learning for us in terms of online collaboration........or should I say lack of it.

Engaging learners online has not been difficult. They definately engage with the notion of flexible delivery. But as Melanie Brenton from Service Skills NT said, "There will be barriers around online collaboration. They won't do it!"

This article also outlines barriers to collaboration in organisations http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=tutorials&article=9-1

Our face to face workshops have a heavy emphasis on collaboration and we are keen to see the same practice reflected online.

We are commencing a new course with Truck Centre - one team from 3 different locations........maybe an opportunity for success :-)