E-Learning

Today's up-and-coming business leaders are a "global generation" unhindered by barriers of geography, culture or communication – but lacking in business education.

Managers are far too busy getting on with their jobs to try e-learning - and even when they do, they find what's on offer is dull and irrelevant.

Corporate trainers are under growing pressure to minimise the time staff spend undergoing training "off the job", resulting in a decline in classroom training and a greater emphasis on e-learning.

Businesses have fundamentally failed to understand how e-learning technology should work, and as a result are not getting the most benefit from it, an academic has argued.

E-learning has been the big buzz in the training world, but decision-makers need to realize the pros, cons, and limitations of E-learning’s capabilities.

The majority of organisations find it difficult to implement e-learning within their training and development initiatives, according to new research.

The dotcom boom led to many hyped-up claims, not least that, by now, we would all be sitting at computers instead of in classrooms when it came to workplace training.

You can save money using online learning, but it has to work for the learners or they won’t want to use it. If that happens, they learn nothing at all and you haven’t saved a thing.

At the height of the dotcom boom, many wild predictions were made about the spread of e-learning to the workplace. The reality, as delegates to a conference on blended learning will hear this week, is somewhat different.

UK Education and Skills Secretary Charles Clarke has launched a consultation document on the Government's e-learning strategy. The consultation will run until January 2004 with an e-learning strategy to be unveiled later that year.

Sainsbury’s and the Learning and Skills Council have formed a partnership to provide an estimated 15,000 hours of training per week to help tackle England’s IT skills shortage. The £15 million venture will serve IT qualifications to shoppers by creating three new I.T.Now@Sainsbury’s learning centres.

E-Learning is moving up the agenda for nearly every employer, university or college. The government has proved to be a major champion of making the UK a leading player in "virtual" distance learning.

According to a survey by Wide Learning, leading providers of online compliance and financial training, almost one in three City workers have not received compliance training as regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in November 2001. More surprising still, half of those workers do not even expect to be trained in the next six months.

The latest research report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) How do People Learn? goes back to basics to explore what we know about how people learn.

The introduction of the Financial Services and Markets Act on November 30 makes senior managers personally responsible for the actions of their firms and customer-facing staff. But how can firms establish whether their staff are competent and ensure that this competence is maintained? An intranet- or Internet-based solution may be the only cost-effective answer.