What Else Affects Your E-Learning Solution

Depending on what you need to measure, you can get very different e-learning solutions. Tell Me More As a businessperson, you’re interested in e-learning because it can have a positive effect on your business. So you’re going to want to know whether that’s happening. You’re going to want reports that tell you what’s going on [...]

Depending on whether you think you need collaboration, you can get very different e-learning solutions. Tell Me More In general, it’s good to have the ability for students to interact with other students while they take the course. This is called collaboration, and it simply means that one student can talk to another. It’s the [...]

Depending on whether you need an instructor, you can get very different e-learning solutions. Tell Me More Yes, it is always better to have an instructor. And it would be better yet if you had the best instructor in the world all the time too. Instructors can play a crucial role in training, the same [...]

Depending on the starting skill level of the students and the ending skill level you need, you can get very different e-learning solutions. Tell Me More Let’s say you’re trying to teach the new extensions to the html Web-page language. Your approach to that training will be greatly influenced by the starting skill level of [...]

Depending on the expected shelf life of the courseware, you can get very different e-learning solutions. Tell Me More Will the e-learning training you create be good for years, or is it a one-shot deal? Will the course be valid this time next year, or will it need updating? Short-term shelf life: This is training [...]

Depending on whether you have a deadline for getting “everyone” trained, you can get very different e-learning solutions. Tell Me More This is similar to the question above on “time to build,” but it is not exactly the same—this is delivery rollout. You might face such a rollout deadline in this kind of situation: You [...]

Depending on how much time you have to get it up and running, you can get very different e-learning solutions. Tell Me More Do you have months to develop the training course? Or only days? E-learning courses can take anywhere from one week to six months (and longer) to put together. (In general, the simpler [...]

Depending on how much time students have to spend on the training, you can get very different e-learning solutions. Tell Me More Your employees have jobs to do, and you can’t expect them to spend 100 percent of their time on e-learning (or on anything else outside the mainline path of their job). The first [...]

Depending on the number of students you have to teach, you can get very different e-learning solutions. Tell Me More Are you trying to train dozens of students with e-learning or hundreds of thousands? You’ll get different kinds of solutions depending on what you answer to that question. (In the same way, if you need [...]

Your budget is perhaps the thing that most affects your e-learning approach. Tell Me More Does your budget match your problem—big to big or small to small? Or do you have a mismatch of small budget to big problem? (If you only have $2,000 for a car, you’re first headed toward the used car lot, [...]

There are only a handful of factors that influence how big and complex your e-learning solution will be. These are the factors you trade off in order to come up with an acceptable (but probably imperfect) e-learning solution. Tell Me More If you think of your e-learning situation as a sheet of plastic, these factors [...]