e-learning skills - what's required?

Current Perceptions of the skills required for e-learning:
My thoughts about how my e-learning information is presented has changed since putting some our Cert IV in Business Administration courses online, and again since I've started this Start Up Programme. I've realised that being about to clearing communicate your ideas is a lot harder when presented electronically and static, then when you are presenting these same ideas to a face to face audience. I've found that you have the body language and the ability to question the audience to determine whether your information is being understood. However, in electronic format it requires the students to "trial" how it works and then ask the students for lots of feedback about how useful or easy to use it was. Making the information or task relevant to their learning is also important.
Students with good computer skills take to the e-learning platform quite easily, but the techno-immigrants (the bodies who are still a little computer shy) do struggle with accessing information this way.
Skills needed for e-learning:
- enthusiasm and a need to discover
- risk taking
- some 'internet' & computer experience
- problem solving skills
- group workshops to get that the "human" touch and to be able to check whether you're on track or not
- hard copies of the information being used electronically
- interesting and useful content & activities
- access to 'fast' internet connection and reliable computers - and some time of "back up" support if struggling
- time to 'play around' and discover
- an understanding of how to download and retrieve software/information
- ways of keeping track of useful information, as well as log-on ids and passwords
Ways of motivating students to participate in e-learning:
- set as part of their assessment
- we run group meetings to share and discuss usefulness of the e-learning material/platform and its application in the workplace/real life
- set up the e-learning platform to that information will appear only once previous tasks have been completed
- having the facilitator respond to the student's work during their e-learning or during a forum etc.