The Covid-19 pandemic has affected every industry, and brought many of them to a halt in the early days. However, e-Learning has experienced swift adoption worldwide during the pandemic or even before it. Educational institutes and organizations, whether big or small, was transitioning to use technology and support their learning using online tools and the pandemic boosted this process. It forced small and medium sized companies in European Union to change as well, they started working remotely and utilizing digital learning as a tool to provide some normality to their business operations. And with the pandemic, the way people perceive learning has been changed, and this fact forces decision makers to rethink the need to introduce a more human-centric digital strategy in the workplace. (Nachmias and Hubschmid-Vierheilig, 2021).
Covid-19 has certainly changed many attitudes towards digital learning. According to McKinsey published article in 2020, after the pandemic, people’s attitudes towards digital learning have been changed and the business world will not be the same. Some companies will seize this opportunity to reimagine every single aspect of how they learn, including the use of online learning.
We need to utilize knowledge acquired through the pandemic, as it is a catalyst to support future changes. Working from home, using digital tools to communicate, creating shared folders and completing online learning activities are simply a few of the activities that describe our new day-to-day life.
In this blog, we will discuss the advantages of e-Learning as well as the best practices of e-Learning methods at the workplace.
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In this blog, we will discuss the advantages of e-Learning as well as the best practices of e-Learning methods at the workplace.
Better retention
E-learning tools allow the trainers to create and use interactive content. The more engaging the content is, the better the learners remember the information presented. It increases the effectiveness of knowledge and skills by enabling access to a massive amount of data, and enhances collaboration. It also strengthens learning-sustaining relationships.
Quality
The lack of consistency in on-site training is one of the biggest problems. In cases where e-learning methods are used for education, the learners are not dependent on the mood of the trainer or the teaching style. Online learning offers consistent training, which means that everyone goes through the same experience.
Personalization and Scalability
E-Learning helps in creating new training, concepts, and ideas. It is a rapid way to learn. Everyone has different learning goals and preferences. Online learning makes it possible to cater to everyone’s needs.
Flexibility for your employee’s
Work Life Balance is one of Today’s most important issues. E-learning offers workplace solutions that fit the employees’ lifestyles. Providing training that can be accessed anytime and anywhere. The learners have the opportunity to become self-directed learners and they can learn asynchronously at any time of the day.
The Covid-19 pandemic have been supporting the rapid growth of the global e-learning market. It demonstrated that learning and development can be accessed efficiently, by everyone with a well-planned e-Learning platform. It is all about adapting, and corporations have to adapt their business plans and their learning and development professionals to online and virtual approaches, in order to survive and/or thrive in the cut-throat business scene.