DISTANCE LEARNING SOLUTIONS AND SUPPORT
Benefits to Businesses
- Training Costs Reduced 10 to 50 Percent
- Improved Efficiency of Learning
- Improved Access to Knowledge
- Course Quality and Impact Assessment
- Security and Reliability
- Convenience of e-Commerce
Training Costs Reduced 10 to 50 Percent
With proper use of distance learning to augment or replace their traditional face-to-face training programs, corporations can reduce their training costs by 10 to 50 percent, according to the United States Distance Learning Association. The recruitment, training and retraining of employees is necessary to succeed in a competitive environment. Many employers have turned to distance learning as a vehicle for reducing or eliminating the high costs of traditional face-to-face training programs.
Small and medium-sized companies have now begun realizing savings in cost and time by turning to the use of the Internet as a training vehicle. Distance learning can provide increased returns on your investment by reducing the travel costs of airfare, lodging, meals and lost productivity.
Distance learning is the shortest route to training and retraining employees. Distance learners save precious time for performing on-the-job responsibilities by reducing or eliminating the need to attend a physical classroom. Participants can receive training wherever they have access to a computer.
Your classroom becomes as large as the Internet and as close as your desktop. Your training staff can undertake this new form of teaching from the office or any location you choose. No special hardware or software is required. The promise of the Internet is finally being realized.
Improved Efficiency of Learning
Maintain your training program at full strength. If you have tried the train-the-trainer approach, you may have discovered that your training program becomes diluted over time. The best managers and supervisors are not always the best trainers. Time erodes training effectiveness, production standards sag and profits may lag. You may wish to blend your in-house training program with web-based training or go totally online; it’s your choice. ScholarPort works to blend the multimedia presentations into your corporate website, making the transition to distance learning transparent to end users.
Make a large amount of information available in an efficient format to an unlimited number of participants. Distance learning is an ideal communication platform for offering executives, employees and customers alike the opportunity to learn new information and refresh their existing skills.
With distance learning, students can access training anytime, anywhere, in any amount and at their own pace. Whether attending a class in real time or asynchronously, students can actively participate in course work and communicate with the other students and instructors. Participants will have on demand access to training 24/7 so they can get back into the field quickly with the information they need to perform effectively.
Flexibility is key. In a short amount of time, instructors can produce engaging multimedia presentations that hold participants’ interest and attention—without the need to purchase and install expensive software. Participants can interact with the facilitator and other students in facilitated discussions, live chat, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to share ideas about what works for your company.
Exploit the side benefit of creating online sales presentations and demonstrations. Your sales force can use distance learning to make presentations and demonstrate new products to customers and resellers. You can also give your resellers or franchisees password protected access to online demonstrations designed to refresh their memory or to demonstrate your products to their retail customers.
Improved Access to Knowledge
Learning should not be constrained by geography. Your updatedtraining materials can be available any time, anywhere. Distance learning removes the limitations of space and time to your training program.
Repurpose your training materials to an online format for customized training solutions. Your company can develop premium distance learning programs for use internally or externally. Depending on the subject, we recommend chunking information into 5- to 8-minute lessons and using audio/video techniques to maintain the interest of students who become bored easily with traditional training.
Not sure how? We can show your training staff how to produce streaming audio and video presentations and demonstrations to create interesting, high quality, custom training solutions.
Course Quality and Impact Assessment
Distance learning allows you to track the progress of participants so you know what each one has covered and when he or she accessed the knowledge. The result is better-trained employees, increased legal protection, and improved safety training. You will have records verifying each trainee’s level of participation in your training program.
Maximize success with Mastery Learning.Mastery Learning is a teaching method in which no student is allowed to fail; they must master all of the content to complete the course. You can program the quiz function within the course management system to require a certain score for students to continue the course. Students may take the quiz as many times as necessary before passing it and progressing to the next level.
Know when trainees are not keeping up. By monitoring the progress of trainees, you can assign mentors or suggest closer supervision of those who do not complete the training or perform to company standards.
Security and Reliability
The course management system is offered in a secure environment. A password protected environment will ensure that only authorized personnel can access your company’s online information.
You can assign different levels of website access and control to different people and departments throughout your organization. Thus you control what types of information and messages can reach which managers, trainers, trainees, support personnel, etc. By designating which Web pages can be accessed by departments and personnel executives can freely exchange sensitive company information within a controlled environment.
Convenience of E-Commerce
ScholarPort can help your company facilitate the transfer of credit card information to your designated bank so your training participants or other customers can pay for your services and products online in a secure environment. You can also post conference information and facilitate online payment of participants’ fees.