The Shift to Working From Home
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2025 3:19 am
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Indirect environmental costs – energy consumption and carbon emissions
In fact, we surveyed our clients and found that between 50-80% of classroom-based instructor-led training investment is spent on non-training expenses like those listed above. Because so much money is wasted on expenses that are unrelated to training, it is more challenging to squeeze ROI out of in-person training programs.
Why Not e-Learning?
In the case of self-directed e-learning, people can consume a series of videos, online modules, and assessments and learn on their own terms anywhere, anytime, on any device. It is a cheap and easy way to rapidly train lots of people. But most people, left to their own devices, abandon the training. As such, otherwise competent people take an easy online course and fail the end of course assessment.
They clicked through the content on the LMS without uk telegram data paying attention and retained none of the valuable information. The fact is that people learn better and training tends to stick when learning and collaborating with other people, which is an experience that self-directed e-learning does not provide.
The global coronavirus pandemic accelerated the widespread adoption of virtual training. As organizations shifted from working together in office buildings to working from home, the entire education, training, learning and development apparatus pivoted in an instant from classroom-based training to virtual training.
Additionally, travel budgets always get slashed during recessions, which is generally devastating to private training companies and corporate learning & development departments. But when times are bad, elevating and training talent gives organizations a competitive edge.
Indirect environmental costs – energy consumption and carbon emissions
In fact, we surveyed our clients and found that between 50-80% of classroom-based instructor-led training investment is spent on non-training expenses like those listed above. Because so much money is wasted on expenses that are unrelated to training, it is more challenging to squeeze ROI out of in-person training programs.
Why Not e-Learning?
In the case of self-directed e-learning, people can consume a series of videos, online modules, and assessments and learn on their own terms anywhere, anytime, on any device. It is a cheap and easy way to rapidly train lots of people. But most people, left to their own devices, abandon the training. As such, otherwise competent people take an easy online course and fail the end of course assessment.
They clicked through the content on the LMS without uk telegram data paying attention and retained none of the valuable information. The fact is that people learn better and training tends to stick when learning and collaborating with other people, which is an experience that self-directed e-learning does not provide.
The global coronavirus pandemic accelerated the widespread adoption of virtual training. As organizations shifted from working together in office buildings to working from home, the entire education, training, learning and development apparatus pivoted in an instant from classroom-based training to virtual training.
Additionally, travel budgets always get slashed during recessions, which is generally devastating to private training companies and corporate learning & development departments. But when times are bad, elevating and training talent gives organizations a competitive edge.