What do Fortune 500 companies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the United States Army have in common? Each has determined that online training is effective, efficient, and able to meet their unique training needs. Why have these leading institutions arrived at this conclusion and how can it benefit you?
Time & Location Are Irrelevant
First, online training eliminates barriers of time and place. Rather than trying to schedule dozens to thousands of individuals who may be scattered across the globe to be together at one moment and place, online training allows members of organizations to complete the training when it is convenient for them.
This maximizes the number of individuals participating in the training and avoids costly disruptions of ongoing work. You can take advantage of these same benefits. Training is now available at any time of the day or night, from any location in the world with a reliable broadband internet connection. No longer are you limited to training and enrichment opportunities in your own community, any training provider in the world is available in your own home or office. A great time management enabler!
Input Once, Output Forever
Second, top notch instruction is infinitely repeatable. By minimizing the time commitment for subject matter experts to a single delivery of a given presentation, the best minds are more willing to share their thoughts and experiences. The benefit to you is that online training can offer the best, not the available. MIT’s OpenCourseWare distribution of lectures by their world renowned faculty is just one example of this advantage of online learning being recognized and implemented globally.
Show, Speak, and Act to All Preferences
Speak, show, and let them be involved – it takes using all learning styles.
Finally, online training can be delivered in vibrant ways that engage learners like you. Rather than mindless slides or dry text, online learning combines full color presentations, audio and video content, and the opportunity to interactively share your thoughts and pose questions to other students and even the experts teaching the class.
The ability to pause and revisit content on demand is a characteristic of online training that no other delivery method can reliably offer. Along the same lines, online training offers you the ability to pause the content delivery, get up, stretch, and maybe refill your coffee mug before resuming your training.
Make Online Training Part of Your Business
Online training has repeatedly been found to be an effective means of communicating vital information necessary for academic, vocational, and personal growth. Now is the time for you to explore all the benefits that online learning can deliver to you. If your company doesn’t have a better understanding of its employees personalities, motivators, strengths, and weakness, consider using these tools as part of your online training initiatives.