eLearning is a solution for your training needs. Using interactive eLearning, companies undergoing rapid change can train all employees, regardless of location, in common "best practice" procedures in a very short time. Features and Benefits of eLearning
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One key feature is interactivity. The trainee can interact with the lesson making choices, selecting answers and receiving feedback. | Immediate feedback motivates the trainee and helps them learn. |
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eLearning has the ability to combine text, graphics, animation, voice, music and video, as well as online content. You may think that this sounds like a typical description of multimedia. In fact multimedia is a new name for an old idea. It's only recently, with PC hardware and software advances, that true integration of these media has become practical. Although you can use audio, animation and video sequences in your training, it is not compulsory to do so. Very effective training can be developed using text, questions and graphics - a little imagination can go a long way! | Appealing, interesting and relevant The ability to combine media can make the learning medium more appealing to the trainee and means that the most appropriate medium can be selected for a particular learning point. For example, if a technical process is to be demonstrated, then an animation can be used to simply demonstrate the process and video can be used to show realistic details. However, beware. The medium should never dominate the message. Slick effects should never be a substitute for sound educational design. |
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You can automatically score and store trainees' answers to questions. | This saves the educator considerable time and allows them to concentrate on other parts of the curriculum which require their personal attention. |
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Multimedia training is typically worked through by one trainee at a time and a computer is infinitely patient. So trainees can work through the material at their own rate rather then being dictated to by the demands of a normal classroom situation. | Slower learners can take their time and repeat sections of the training while faster learners are not held up by the pace of others. This makes your courses more usable by a broader range of learners. You can supplement the basic material with more advanced modules if required. |
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Your training can be distributed by CD-ROM or downloaded from the Internet. It is also perfect distribution on large networks or intranets. The flexibility of distribution means reaching a broad audience, including those in remote and international destinations, is made easy. | From the trainee's point of view, they can get access to training that they may not otherwise have the opportunity to do. From the developer's point of view, they can potentially recover development costs by selling to a wider market. |
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The training can be made available wherever and whenever a computer is available. This may be at 2:00 in the morning by shift workers at a manufacturing plant. Training can, of course, be made available in the workplace. | Access to training is improved. It can also reduce lost productivity as trainees do the training at the work site on their own schedule without the need to bring groups together. |
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Facilitates the application of standards Because the training is self contained and can be widely distributed, you can communicate a standard message to all trainees. You have the opportunity to reflect best practices and the knowledge of all relevant subject matter experts in the training. | Individual trainees, regardless of their location and other resources, have access to the standard practices that you specify. The quality of the message is not degraded by the ability or knowledge of individual instructors. |