Criteria's for E-Learning Delivery Platform (ELDP) for Open and Distance Learning (ODL)

Open and Distance Learning (ODL) has been widely discussed by academicians and Information Technology (IT) personnel's in recent years. In an ODL system, E-Learning Delivery Platform (ELDP) plays an integral part that ensures learning materials delivered to users in the most effective and efficient manner. Identifyingth the selection criteria is very important and vital for a suitable ELDP system that will enhance and enrich the ODL At the same time, evaluation formats or check-sheets can be developed using the criteria's to evaluate various ELDP providers by the ODL provider. The criteria's can also be used to help the ELDP developer or provider to develop new systems and make further improvements from time to time. This paper gives a brief summary of the criteria's to select an ELDP system for delivering education via ODL envimment The criteria are required to satisfy the requirements hr courses such as arts, social science, business, management, IT, engineering, science, and so on. It also repments the multiple perspectives of the course developer, the course leaming-ware developer, the course lecturerhtor, the course e-learning administrive staff, the technical support stat the student and the ' university administration. (Authors' abstract