E-learning
The Internet and intranets offer some wonderful alternatives for the delivery of training.
This FAQ is designed to cover the basics of this technology. Please send an email if you have any suggestions for additional questions to be included. And good luck with your elearning!
What is e-learning?
E-learning is instruction that is delivered electronically, in part or wholly — via a Web browser, such as Netscape Navigator, through the Internet or an intranet, or through multimedia platforms such CD-ROM or DVD. Increasingly — as higher bandwidth has become more accessible — it has been identified primarily with using the Web, or an intranet's web, leveraging the Web's visual environment and interactive nature.
How can I determine whether e-learning is right for our organization?
Here are several questions you can use to assess the viability of e-learning for your company: 1. Do you have management support?
2. Do you have enough potential users to justify the cost of purchase or development?
3. Do you have a target audience who can use or learn to use a computer?
4. Will they accept a Web-based program?
5. Will they learn from this particular program?
6. Will the program provide a method of instruction that is easier, faster, cheaper, safer, or more engaging than the alternative?
7. Did you come to this page looking for the answer to this question?
What are the Advantages of e-learning? Flexibility, Accessibility, Convenience - Users can proceed through a training program "at their own pace and at their own place." They can also access the training at any time, and only as much as they need - known as "Just in time and just enough."
Cross platform - E-learning can be accessed by Web browsing software on any platform:
Windows, Mac, UNIX, OS/2, Amiga, etc. You can deliver your training program to any
machine over the Internet or intranet without having to author a program for each platform. Web browser software and Internet
This FAQ is designed to cover the basics of this technology. Please send an email if you have any suggestions for additional questions to be included. And good luck with your elearning!
What is e-learning?
E-learning is instruction that is delivered electronically, in part or wholly — via a Web browser, such as Netscape Navigator, through the Internet or an intranet, or through multimedia platforms such CD-ROM or DVD. Increasingly — as higher bandwidth has become more accessible — it has been identified primarily with using the Web, or an intranet's web, leveraging the Web's visual environment and interactive nature.
How can I determine whether e-learning is right for our organization?
Here are several questions you can use to assess the viability of e-learning for your company: 1. Do you have management support?
2. Do you have enough potential users to justify the cost of purchase or development?
3. Do you have a target audience who can use or learn to use a computer?
4. Will they accept a Web-based program?
5. Will they learn from this particular program?
6. Will the program provide a method of instruction that is easier, faster, cheaper, safer, or more engaging than the alternative?
7. Did you come to this page looking for the answer to this question?
What are the Advantages of e-learning? Flexibility, Accessibility, Convenience - Users can proceed through a training program "at their own pace and at their own place." They can also access the training at any time, and only as much as they need - known as "Just in time and just enough."
Cross platform - E-learning can be accessed by Web browsing software on any platform:
Windows, Mac, UNIX, OS/2, Amiga, etc. You can deliver your training program to any
machine over the Internet or intranet without having to author a program for each platform. Web browser software and Internet