What are the cultural issues in making e-learning effective as a training tool?
This topic is worthy of a book. Suffice it to say for now that the quality of the job you and your team do in rollout and implementation is everything – the launch of the module has to be supported by management, tracked, encouraged, and re-encouraged. The quality of the learning has to be good. It is essential that learners are always able to tell where they are, where they are going, and where they’ve been – that they can stop and restart at a later time, without losing their progress, that their prior learning is recognised and counted. It is helpful if the learning is tracked and tied to an employee’s skill level, and perhaps advancement.It is helpful if learners have an online help desk or online tutor, in case they have questions. It is helpful if unsophisticated computer users have practice modules which help them. Finally, your executive needs to be fully behind the e-learning initiative – not simply to lower training costs, but to increase the speed and effect of learning with
