ELearning

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LEARNING ON THE INTERNET
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Topics

• What are the benefits?
• How do I ensure its good ELearning?
• How do I ensure it succeeds?
• How do I show its succeeding?
• Summary

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ELearning - the benefits

• Real time response to student progress
• Cheaper to run courses, once developed
• Can employ all of the senses
• Flexibility of when and how to take the course
• Easier to keep courses up to date
• Ongoing access to course after completion is
  possible

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Realtime Response to Progress

• If student gets a question wrong, student can be
  sent to a page to relearn that topic
• If student gets a great score, a section can be
  skipped
• Student and Course provider get realistic up to
  date information on progress so that they can
  react accordingly

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Cheaper to Run Courses

• About the same cost to Create a Course
• Once created, a lot cheaper to run course time
  and time again
• No travel/hotel/lunch costs
• No paper costs
• No room hire costs
• Tuition costs are less too per student

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Employ All Of The Senses

• ELearning can stimulate the learning responses of
  all senses
• Appealing graphics and text
• Sound (audio)
• Video
• Multimedia (Flash)
• Interaction with the subject matter
• People remember 10 of what they read
• People remember 50 of what they hear and see
• People remember more if they DO it too!
  (Simulations)

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Flexibility of When/How

• The student in an Elearning situation can choose
  when and how to learn
• Especially useful for those with family or work
  commitments
• Convenience of being able to take course at
  work/at home/elsewhere
• Can learn on a PC, PDA, laptop etc
• Students all over the world can take same course
  in different timezones
• Student can work at own pace

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Keep Courses Up To Date

• Easier to keep courses up to date
• Latest news/world events can be incorporated
  easily
• Less costly to update too
• Only one copy of the course needs to be updated
  not binders and manuals, books etc.

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Ongoing Access

• Elearning students can be given ongoing access to
  course materials
• Such access can help the student to refresh
  his/her memory
• Tools for decision-making and general skills can
  be reused again and again after the course has
  been completed
• Especially useful for language courses to
  refresh the students memory of grammar or
  vocabulary

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How to Ensure its Good?

• Select a good LMS/delivery mechanism
• Standardize on ONE LMS/mechanism
• Initial experience is important
• Dropout rates are high on initial use
• Interactive classes/chats
• Access to tutor is important
• Incentives to attend classes are key

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How To Ensure It Is Good?

• Carrot and Stick approach
• Make course appealing and stimulating
• Elicit positive emotions in student
• Ensure that the student feels pain if they
  dont pass/take the course
• Examples
• Offer certificate if student passes
• Offer free loss leader sections/courses
• No promotion / payrise if they dont pass
• Rank students publicly

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How To Ensure Its Good?

• Select appropriate medium/type
• Simulations
• Games
• Interactive
• Live online webinars/events
• Virtual classrooms

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How To Show Its Succeeding?

• Report on progress
• Requires a good LMS with tracking/reporting
• Requires tests/exams within the course
• Elearning audits/surveys
• Link success to key business drivers
• Sales figures
• Software quality measures
• Costs of running courses

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Summary

• There are key benefits of Elearning over
  traditional methods
• The key is to select the correct delivery
  mechanism/type of ELearning for the subject
• Motivate ELearners using the Carrot and Stick
  approach
• Show that ELearning is succeeding in terms of Key
  Business Drivers