E-Learning A Modern Business Imperative

Overview: A recent study surveyed owners of 3000 businesses about their training practices and asked them to relate those practices to productivity. They found that education produces twice the gain in productivity and efficiency than money spent on tools and machinery. Many companies today are turning to a highly effective and incredibly inexpensive way to overcome this dilemma-E-Learning. Several principles borrowed from basic psychology can have a profound effect on the degree to which training is absorbed and effective. People need to feel the exhilaration of small successes interspersed with the inevitable mistakes they must make while acquiring new concepts and skills. So, how do employees learn best? Take them from a state of ignorance to awareness through practice to new habit patterns. Another factor that influences learning is the nature of the subject. Any level of proficiency, the key to making a subject easier to learn is to break it down into small, simple increments. This type of E-Learning program is excellent because it affords the employee the opportunity to perfect one area and incorporate that information into his or her own work style before moving on to the next module.

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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1