The Corporate Revolution Of Online Training

By David Turner


Learning on-line has turned into a important trend in the realm of corporate education of personnel. For the majority of companies, the advantages of e-learning in saving time and therefore money is changing the landscape of the entire field of employer based education and learning.

Recent Stats

Just look at the most recent figures provided by CertifyMe.net on the state of e-learning in corporate education:

- 77% of American Businesses use e-learning as a education method

- Enterprises save 50% to 70% when changing to an e-learning program from instructor based education

- E-learning courses are generally 25% to 60% shorter in duration than traditional methods of training

- 72% of businesses interviewed believe that e-learning is providing them with the competitive edge by keeping them on top of changes in their industry

This clearly shows that businesses save time and funds when switching at least some of their business's training to e-learning.

Effects on Workload

Employees report that when attending class room training on site or off-site, there's a backlog of work that develops. Employees understand that time is money and business suffers anytime work is put on hold for employees to go to training programs and seminars. Productivity continues to be the same or even increases whenever e-learning is in place since employees will save time by accessing e-learning during down time in the workplace or at home. Challenges of productivity and workload are to a large extent eliminated whenever e-learning is in place and this is another cost saving feature of e-learning.

Learning Retention

With e-learning, students better understand and grasp the subject matter because if they have a problem mastering a concept they are able to always revisit and review. With learning in a class room there isn't often the time to go back and review. This fits with the CertifyMe.net statistics that illustrate that employees not only learn but improve material retention by 25% to 60% with e-learning. Since employees are not restricted by time, they can go through the whole course load without having that pressure. They can also easily skip subjects that they may already know saving more time through the elimination of repetitive study.

Job Satisfaction

Businesses that invest more into training and development of their workforce, show a considerably improved job satisfaction. 23% of employees leave companies since they do not believe they're getting the training and development they ought to better carry out their jobs. Thus, it is vital for companies to offer this training however they must do it in the most cost efficient way possible and currently, that is with e-learning. A good example of where an employee might become frustrated is in the training of new computer software and with the computer based business model, this training becomes essential. Organisations ought to keep employees up-to-date, since they definitely cannot hire new employees every time there is a change in the IT side of the business. The best way to satisfy this software training is e-learning.

How To Incorporate e-Learning

There are a lot of ways for organizations to incorporate e-learning into their business model. One example is for a organization to team up with a company that provides e-learning and associated services. This corporation and the e-learning company can develop a core curriculum of programs which the company feels their particular employees need to know. The curriculum may include any computer training for programs, basic accounting, business fundamentals, classes on providing better customer care, and also other training that could be market specific. This is put in place for workers to access courses they believe they require in addition to courses their department heads want everybody to take. Each employee has six-months to a year to finish this training and it is all documented on his or her yearly evaluation. There are many Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller organizations which have incorporated the use of e-learning and it is saving them time and money in enough areas to fully pay for it.




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