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Helping Your Employees to Embrace E-learning as Core to Their Success

Introduction

Recently, a new message has emerged from the E-learning industry. Vendors are shifting away from the model of “E-learning by the pound”; that is, selling learning as a commodity, and instead are focusing on ways to make learning relevant to employees, their jobs and their companies’ core business needs.

Journals and websites dedicated to training frequently refer to “E-learning usage” and “e- learning ROI.” Regardless of the term used, the issue can be expressed quite simply:

In today's global society, learning is required throughout our lives - not only to remain competitive in job markets, but also to enhance our individual participation in culture and society. We need to learn new skills, we need further training for existing skills and we need new and faster ways to learn these skills.

Enter E-learning - a viable and effective method that leverages the internet to deliver anytime/anywhere learning to individual or corporate learners. From rich multimedia instruction to online community and discussion, E-learning has the power to increase access to education and training, while reducing learning costs.

Vietnamlearning is supporting a strategy of continuous learning. This will include creating an environment and an "infrastructure" that will enable employees to continuously learn by providing easy access to a wide-array of rich, dynamic learning resources that are available "just in time, just enough, and just for me."

During the research and development phase of a recent project, we found varying levels of sophistication among organizations using E-learning. The three broad categories of learning, along with a fourth category of where we believe the industry is heading, are described below.