An evaluation of the implementation of instructional design skill standards for e-learning in Taiwan

This study evaluated the implementation of an instructional design competency framework for e-learning in Taiwan. The item difficulty indexes and item discrimination indexes of the certification examinations on instructional design core competency for e-learning showed that the test items were adequately designed. According to the analysis on types of test item and knowledge levels of test item, the examinees performed equally in responding to the single-answer items and to the multiple-answer items; accordingly, the examinees performed equally on the application items and the comprehension items. In the past two years of implementation of the e-learning skill certification, 79 examinees took the instructional design for e-learning certification examinations, and only 11 of them had passed the e-ID core knowledge examination. The low passing rate suggested that effective promotion strategies and diffusion of information concerning e-learning skill standards and certification to the prospective participants should be further enforced in order to reach the goal of making the skill standards serve as a common framework for educational institutions, practitioners and researchers in the e-learning related fields.