An Analysis of the Effectiveness of E-Learning in Corporate Training Programs

Abstract

There is an disagreement that traditional learning is the best way of maintaining a learning process. Other models are always considered to be lower or less efficient. There is no finding to support this argument, and research shows that eLearning models are at least as good as traditional learning. Therefore, the eLearning includes advantages which are not found in traditional learning, such as: time for digesting the information and responding, enhanced communication among the learners, both as regards quality and as regards urgency, knowledge being acquired and transferred among the learners themselves, the ability to conduct an open discussion, where each learner gets more of an equal standing than in a face-to-face discussion, access to information and to discussion ability, responses may be made around the clock with no restrictions, a higher motivation and involvement in the process on the part of the learners Most corporations are constantly looking for less cost methods to deliver training to their participants with possible maximum quality. E-learning is less expensive than traditional classroom instruction, but the quality to deliver training most often is degraded. Achieving both of the two objectives namely, cost and quality is not an easy task since the two objectives are conflicting to each other. Indeed, selecting E-learning or traditional classroom or mixed of them should be based on some criteria. An investigation and analysis to deliver training is made in order to deliver training in an optimized cost and quality according to the criteria set that can be determined in this study.