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Training Companies Are Adopting eLearning
In the past, many Training Companies have been reluctant to adopt eLearning as a medium for training delivery. They have viewed this as compromising on their core competency – human mediated training. Most training companies have been successful in selling their trainers’ expertise (and charisma) as a USP.
While this has limited them from expanding, it has helped them hold on to their regular clientele and survive through earlier downturns. However, this recession is markedly different; no one can doubt it is more severe than any of the earlier ones. More importantly – this slump has occurred at a time when the very structure of training and learning is undergoing change. Corporates today are considering multiple technology-enabled-training options as part of their long term strategy. The lower costs of eLearning, the foreseeable ubiquity of mLearning, the promise of Social Learning, are all forcing a major reshuffle in focus (and budgets) in corporate training.
Training Companies seem to be realizing that when we come out of this recession, human mediated training would not be in demand as much. They are now exploring options to keep running their business profitably by cutting the cost of training for their clients, while adapting to the changing nature of training and learning itself.
This will grow further as more training companies consider blended learning options to deliver greater value to their clients and customers.
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The Key to the Future: Elearning Solutions
Elearning on its own has such a wide definition since it has also a very wide variety of applications. Elearning can also be spelled as e-learning and it was derived from the phrase “electronic learning.” It refers to different fields of technology based learning. Basically, with the help of the internet, not only is learning made more accessible and easier for a lot of people, it also helps speed up the learning process since the medium is made more animated, interactive, and illustrative with the use of the right technological know-how.
At the most basic level, elearning can simply be described or defined as learning with the help of electronic technology. Any one who wants to take advantage of this kind of system would do well to think about what specific type of TEL or technology enhanced learning would fit their needs? For example, offline software packages might be good for employee training or teaching a certain lesson (perhaps such as computer science) to students or employees. As another example, web based online elearning tools might be the best choice for long courses that people with full time jobs might want to try out.
Thus, the word elearning itself really has quite a number of many possible meanings for those who are not that familiar with the industry. And perhaps, even within the industry itself, the competing definitions of different people (all claiming to be experts in the field) are still apparent. What this just means is that the tools, mediums, and modes that elearning can take form in is so diverse that literally no two experts completely agree with anything anymore. The differences in usage and in the medium must really be that different from each other that really make the experts want to disagree about this subject.
Elearning solutions encompass a lot of techniques and modes. Some companies use it when training their employees or spreading out a short lecture. Universities use it in specific courses for programs where the students will most likely not see each other face to face since the whole study course happens online. Lectures are probably emailed and class discussions are done in forums.
Truly elearning solutions have become the preferred mode of teaching and learning by so many. The addition of technology simply opens up so many barriers and lets in so many possibilities. Not only is it more convenient for a lot of people. It is also much cheaper than tradition teaching or classroom instruction methods. Not only that, some studies purport that it increases the learning capacity of students. This might just be ushering in the future of pedagogy.
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