Infection control and elearning

There has been a lot in the news lately about infection control issues in aged care facilities here in Australia. The federal government has just announced a plan to develop an education package to address infection control issues. It would seem that elearning should play a significant part in this package. The advantages in terms of delivering consistent best practice information, accessability for learners and ease of updating the resouce - even customisation for specific regisonal or cultural groups are obvious. It will be interesting to see if elearning is included in the education kit or if the same old paper resources, delivered and then forgotten will be what the industry ends up with.