Table 3.
Important questions for virtual training adaptation
| Capability assessment |
| Do the trainees have access to the required resources and infrastructure to benefit from online delivery? |
| Do the trainees have the required technical understanding to participate in online training? |
| Does the training organisation have the necessary QI expertise and facilitation capacity? |
| Does the training organisation have the requisite technical support? |
| What are the current challenges faced by the training organisation in delivering traditional QI programmes? |
| Make or buy |
| Does the organisation have the required resources, skills, and technical support to develop an online QI training solution from scratch? |
| Does the organisation have an already available QI platform that can be adapted to deliver QI training? |
| Are there any already available external platforms or QI resources that the organisation can use for delivering training? |
| What distance learning modes does the training organisation currently incorporates in traditional QI training? |
| What will be the financial impact for the make vs. buy decision and does the training organisation have the required budget? |
| What is the opinion of the key stakeholders regarding distance learning delivery and make vs buy decision? |
| Does the training organisation have the resources to conduct pilot testing of the e-delivery prior to the launch? |
| Structure and content |
| Are the training objectives, topics, and activities suitable for distance delivery? |
| Does the organisation want to develop or use their own content or adapt from already available content? |
| Would the programme be delivered completely online, or a blended learning approach would be used? |
| How can the social and networking aspects of face-to-face programmes adapted to online delivery? |
| How will the facilitators provide distance learning support and coaching? |
| How will contextual factors be incorporated into programme design? |
| Programme evaluation and implementation |
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What is important to the training organisation in terms of evaluation? (For example: programme attendance, training reaction, patient level outcome, organisational outcomes, content knowledge testing, QI project outcomes, feedback on training mode) |
| How will feedback and evaluation data be collected and who will be responsible? |
| Will the evaluation be short term or long term? |
| Will the training organisation provide extended coaching online/distance coaching support and how? |
| What implementation support will be provided and how? |
Important questions for adapting QI programme delivery to online modes