eLearning

We have all heard the expression 'the learning organisation'. This term have been used broadly to describe an organisation that values learning, and continuously reinventing itself to meet forever changing business challenges.

Key Business Challenges

The primary learning drivers are linked to corporate challenges relating to:

Changing marketplace - more global markets, more market channel types
More competitors and different types of competition
Changes from product-centric to customer-centric organisations
Faster pace of change
Learning Challenges

This continual rapid change means the human resource knowledge must keep pace with the market. Keywords such as: people, innovation, learning, sustainable, agility, competitive advantage all point to the need to have a more rapid interface to up to date knowledge.

As well as the external facing challenges, there are internal challenges, such as:

50-70% of enterprise costs are people costs.
Ability to change performance often the key barrier to execution.
Growing frustration around the ability of learning and training functions to keep up with the pace of change.
People in organizations have no time for change or development
Complexity of jobs are increasing and changing more rapidly

The net challenge is the need for employees to have access to on-demand rapid learning tools 24x7. There is a need for new kinds of learning solutions. eLearning 2.0 is the answer to this challenge.

eLearning 2.0 is often thought of as Blended Learning or Rapid Learning.

With the advance of Web 2.0 technologies and Business Intelligence tools, organisations are moving towards integrating learning with normal activity, supporting the contextual element of rapid learning. This translates as:

Seamless integration of learning objects with information objects in context of work
System proaction (prompts) as follow-up
Reporting tools and assessments tied directly to information and learning objects
Integration of metrics and community use information to track utility

Integrating learning with activity increases the diversity of business tools and resources. It provides a greater understanding of the action being undertaken and helps with the assimilation of the learning.

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