Not too sure about E-Learining?

Posted by hecto on February 25, 2009 under The Internet, Tips, Training | Be the First to Comment

E-Learning is probably a term that you have heard before or may even have participated in it as in today’s modern world this is widely used in organisations and households. Also known as Electronic learning (or e-Learning or eLearning) this is a kind of education the instructions come from a computer and not a human. Usually there is no interaction with a person during E-Learning. Many government and commercial organisations worldwide make use of E-Learning to train their employees about a specific application that the organisation may have developed or even educate their employees on topics such as the environment. E-Learning has spread at such a great speed that Universities offer courses to enable those who are unable to attend lectures in a physical locations to still graduate, via this method of teaching, most student who take these courses rarely or never see their lectures.

The E-Learning industry is estimated to be worth over 38 billion Euros worldwide; in the European Union (EU) for example over 80% of the e-learning products are produced abroad. To help you understand just how big E-Learning is and at what a rate it is growing then it may help knowing that in 2006 nearly 3.5 million students in USA were taking part in online learning institutions. Universities in United States view this as a method of increasing their revenue as E-Learning can be applicable for a wide variety of people. For some people E-learning has given them the opportunity to get a degree due to the fact that E-Learning also offers a great deal of flexibility. On the other hand E-learning requires highly trained employees to work with students on-line. Not only must these employees know their subject area well but they now must also be trained to use the computer and internet will.