The Benefit of e-Learning
The benefit of e-learning over traditional classroom goes beyond flexibility and saving travel time and money. e-Learning also delivers a level of consistency to your training programs that instructor-led training can't and makes it easy for employees to make learning a continuous part of their job, leading to improved performance and higher retention rates.
Other key benefits of e-learning to consider include:
Reduced costs. Unlike classroom training, e-learning content can be accessed by multiple employees, in multiple locations at any point in time. Every time an employee accesses a course or other e-learning asset, your ROI improves because your cost to provide that specific course or asset remains the same.
Consistent quality. e-Learning allows you to create a standard process for training and deliver a consistent experience with the learning content you provide. Even the best, most charismatic live instructors can have an off day. Not so with e-learning—materials are presented the same way, every time, to every learner.
Increased knowledge retention. Blended learning programs leverage the use of multiple learning modalities, like books, online courses and video, to reinforce key messages users need to retain. Add that to the ability to re-take all or part of a specific course and you better your chances that employees will apply the knowledge they learn to the jobs they're doing.
Just-in-time solutions. On demand access to online training and e-learning content allows employees to brush up on their skills by taking refresher courses and solve on-the-job problems in real time. The technology you choose can also make it possible for employees who can't find time to learn at work to take advantage of training when it's convenient.
Greater reach. Lower overall training and development costs allow you to build bigger and better learning programs that not only provide more content, but provide opportunities for more people with an organization to benefit from learning initiatives—all of which can boost productivity and employee engagement and lower turnover.
e-Learning Benefit Resources
- Video: e-Learning Trumps ILT
SAP's Michelle Braden discusses changing people's perceptions about e-learning. While people in the organization didn't initially believe that e-learning could replace instructor–led training, utilization across the enterprise tells a different story. - White Paper: Moving the Needle
What value does SkillSoft training provide to individuals and organizations? In late 2010 we asked KnowledgeAdvisors, the world's largest learning analytics firm, to conduct an independent study that would answer this question. - Article: Taking the eLearning Leap? Three Discoveries You'll Make Along the Way.
What value does SkillSoft training provide to individuals and organizations? In late 2010 we asked KnowledgeAdvisors, the world's largest learning analytics firm, to conduct an independent study that would answer this question. - Research: The Business Benefits of e-Learning in High-Growth Companies (Bersin)
This report from Bersin & Associates discusses how high-growth companies use e-learning to address their business issues, and e-learning practices that drive high performance. - Video: Praise for e-Learning's Flexibility
Abigail Jastrzebski, Workforce Development Specialist at Children's Hospital, Boston, discusses a survey she conducted that revealed learners appreciated the flexibility of e-learning.
