This was released by ASTD recently: http://www.astd.org/NR/rdonlyres/66C9F457-69D7-44FA-B60C-9D6FFE438DB1/0/LTETpressreleasefinal.pdf
The net of it is that economic pressures are driving more organizations towards e-learning. Not really shocking news, but certainly a pertinent point. That is, the whole purpose of technology is to enable efficiencies. The whole purpose of learning is knowledge transfer. To the degree technology can enable more efficient knowledge transfer; e-learning and the wide variety of forms it takes make sense. When learning ceases to occur, so should the the focus on technology. Efficient ineffectiveness doesn’t really get us anywhere.
In this economy (or any brighter one), every learning organization should be looking at how to use technology to drive knowledge transfer more efficiently…and hopefully more effectively too.
Greg,
Thanks for linking to the release.
I’ve seen my company shift it’s e-learning philosophy towards the best practices sited in the release:
“Two specific best practices include crafting learning around smaller chucks of content by honing focus and presentation times, and staying the course realizing learning will bring benefits in employee engagement, retention, and overall organizational strength.”
The smaller chunks of content allow our clients to hop online and quickly learn the specific things they need to learn… rather than sitting through an hour training session when they already know 45 minutes worth of the content covered… and only need to learn the other 15 minutes.
Again, thanks for the post and for linking to the release.
Nick Wright