According to a survey by the Private University of Applied Sciences in Göttingen, e-learning (or online training or telelearning) is now used by most companies to impart knowledge to employees. 350 leading German companies were surveyed, and 88% stated that they incorporate e-learning programs into their professional development and training practice.

Find out more here about the benefits of e-learning for companies and how you can identify the right online training variant in the e-learning jungle!

E-learning with learning platforms opens up new perspectives for companies

In the wide-ranging e-learning offer of the present day, online learning courses are available for all industries, even niche sectors. But how worthwhile is the use of e-learning? What concrete perspectives does it open up?

Limited company budgets, everyday work life, and employee needs require a cost-effective, flexible, and individual further education offer. These requirements are recognized and met by the further education industry of our time: electronic learning is a way of imparting knowledge that can be adapted to individual circumstances. Online training goals and e-learning advantages are defined as follows:

Learning objectives of e-learning for companies

• Acquisition of new specialist knowledge
• Refresher of specialist knowledge
• Acquisition of leadership knowledge
• Self-organization and self-management
• Improvement of teamwork and collaboration
• Centrally prepare and distribute learning content

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E-learning advantages for learning employees and management staff

• Suitable for conveying new information
• Allows learners to learn at their own pace
• More employees can be trained than with conventional further education
• Increases practical confidence in the corresponding subject areas in everyday work
• Allows further knowledge to be accumulated and new skills to be practiced
• Makes learning content understandable and enables learners to explain it to others
• Allows the rapid conveyance of the latest learning content thanks to digital learning platforms
• Motivates learners through learning successes and new perspectives
• Is “fun learning,” e.g., with a quiz battle, where learners compete digitally against each other
• Lowers further education costs
• Allows worldwide learning communities to emerge
• Learning results are comparable to those of face-to-face seminars

How to find the right e-learning training variant for your company?

Which e-learning training variant is the right one for your individual business is decided by learning objectives and company-specific requirements. Comparing these with the different manifestations of electronic learning reveals which e-learning method is the right one for your business. For example, some companies rely on blended learning, which combines online training with face-to-face events. Others prefer employee training in a virtual classroom or via webinar at a set time. Others opt for time-independent mobile learning and thus additionally reduce further education costs and employee absenteeism.

Answering the following questions provides clues that allow the right e-learning variant for your company to be determined:

Learning infrastructure as well as company-structural & cultural aspects

• Which target group do the learners belong to?
• What do you expect from your employees? Which content would you like to train?
• What personal requirements do they bring with them?
• Which learning objectives are targeted?
• What technical equipment is available at the learning location?
• How can the learning situation at the learning location be described?
• Which learning content (courses, trainings) would you like to integrate?

Company structure & company situation

• How is the company positioned in the competition?
• Which company strategies are you pursuing?
• How can the organizational circumstances be summarized?
• What is the nature of the employee and leadership structure?
• Which structural and procedural organizational aspects characterize everyday company life?

Situational framework conditions

• At what time should the e-learning training take place?
• At what location is the online course planned?

Find out here what possibilities the e-learning software keelearning offers you and how you can convince your learners with digital learning.

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