e-learning
To any respectable organization, its people are its biggest and most precious asset.

This is why nurturing educated, visionary and passionate people is critical to organizations

today.
This makes corporate training a very important aspect of investments that

corporations make. In fact, today corporations are the largest users of e-learning models to

train their staff with new processes, services, applications, soft skills and customer

relations.
Benefits to corporations: In industries such as health care,

financial services, entertainment, education and government, e-learning efficient business

practices, information and communication which have several big and long term benefits.
When training courses must be delivered by corporations to their staff, e-learning

can prove effective in these situations:

• When the company is multi-locational with large numbers of staff


• When the courses offered are universal in nature


• When a corporate client needs to discuss with learners in a confidential
  
  setting



• When managers want to track and log the progress of each learner


• When it can prove cost- and time-efficient

However, in recent times, corporate training has given way to what is termed blended

learning which an amalgam of different learning methods.
Blended learning in corporate training: Unfortunately, the focus of

corporate training programs is more on improving revenue, enhancing teamwork and reducing

company costs rather than developing human capital or people. However, blended learning helps

employees enhance their effectiveness at the job rather than become repositories of

knowledge.
Benefits of blended learning:

• Learners with varying speeds of understanding and different delivery methods can
  
  benefit from this greatly with its various learning techniques where each learning experience is
  
  a step which he climbs as he progresses from one stage to another. This ladder-like approach
  
  helps learners climb the tree of knowledge, as it were, from a basic information level to a level
  
  of expertise within a set timeframe and fixed costs.


• With a blended learning model, a learner can combine elements from one level or
  
  complete levels to reach a particular learning solution. A company may choose any blend depending
  
  on its needs and can choose from a variety of factors such as needs, time, costs and ready
  
  content.


• You can tailor your content to suit the unique needs of your organization and
  
  employees.


• It blends the need for computers in classroom situations where they are needed with
  
  providing classroom experiences when computers could not teach the subject well enough.

Pratibha R. S.
Executive - Instructional Designer

About CommLab IndiaCommLab India (www.commlabindia.com) is a Custom

eLearning Solutions Company based in India. Since 2000, it has been providing state-of-the-art

eLearning services to organizations across the world in the areas of Learning Consultancy, Custom

Courseware and Learning Technology. Some of our reputed clients are BC Hydro, George Washington

University, Kawasaki and Deloitte. We are preferred vendors to some of the Fortune 500 companies

like Alcoa and Hill-Rom.