Recommended reading, this webpage from the Ministry of Education (New Zealand) summarises key issues and findings from the full report (also available for download). The content is succinct and includes some excellent graphics clearly depicting  the process of elearning industry, elearning as it occurs in large companies, and in small or medium businesses, and a model for examining elearning effectiveness.

This is an excellent summary of key e-learning issues in the New Zealand workplace, but many of these factors have wider relevance. It also glances towards the future and identifies the following future trends:

• Blended: Despite the growing focus in industry on e-learning, traditional approaches continue to remain important. A blended approach, incorporating e-learning with traditional formats, has already been identified by some as the way to proceed. It is envisaged that this will be a significant approach in the future.
• Collaborative: To achieve cost reduction and to increase the quality of elearning resources developed, many organisations will increasingly collaborate with the producers whose goods they sell and with other organisations in the same sector.
• In-House: Increasingly, the benefits of tracking the training undertaken by employees, ensuring all employees are conversant with company policies and compliant with appropriate legislative requirements, is being recognised. This will be monitored by e-administration tools managed by inhouse staff.
• Mobile: Mobile technologies (such as phones, PDAs and cameras) are readily available and enable information to be accessed remotely and for data transfer from those “on-site” back to the central office and conversely for the central office to provide advice or training to those “on-site”. A number of firms indicated in this study that the use of mobile technologies was a key component of future e-learning offering

This page summarises one of the most current and useful current reviews of e-learning in the New Zealand workplace: Using e-Learning to build workforce capability: A review of activities

 

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