Is e-learning more expensive than traditional instructor led training?
Web Based Training is much more affordable than traditional instructor-led classroom training. Classroom training is a very costly business venture. It requires a staff of highly paid instructors, fully equipped training rooms, and full-time staff to co-ordinate scheduling of students, instructors, and facilities. No-shows (students that don’t show up for class) are very common and create additional scheduling overhead and inefficient resource allocation. Printed course materials (textbooks, manuals, etc.) are very expensive, often representing 10-30% of the course cost. These costs must be passed along in the form of tuition or taxes depending on whether the training organisation is privately or publicly funded. Remember also that e-learning unsures absolute standardisation and consistency of message across your entire organisation, there is no deviation from instructor to instructor, course to course.
