What are the advantages of e-Learning to the Trainer or Organization?
Some of the most outstanding advantages to the trainer or organization are: * Reduced overall cost is the single most influential factor in adopting e-learning. The elimination of costs associated with instructor’s salaries, meeting room rentals, and student travel, lodging, and meals are directly quantifiable. The reduction of time spent away from the job by employees may be the most positive offshoot. * Learning times reduced, an average of 40 to 60 percent, as found by Brandon Hall (Web-based Training Cookbook, 1997, p. 108). * Increased retention and application to the job averages an increase of 25 percent over traditional methods, according to an independent study by J.D. Fletcher (Multimedia Review, Spring 1991, pp.33-42). * Consistent delivery of content is possible with asynchronous, self-paced e-learning. * Expert knowledge is communicated, but more importantly captured, with good e-learning and knowledge management systems. * Proof of completion and certification, essential
