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Employees can then access training when it is convenient for them, at home or in the office.

The biggest benefit of eLearning, however, is that it eliminates the expense and inconvenience of getting the instructor and students in the same place.

Web-based products allow instructors to update lessons and materials across the entire network instantly.

electronic learning solutions can offer more collaboration and interaction with experts and peers as well as a higher success rate than the live alternative.

With 24 x 7 access, people can learn at their own pace and review course material as often as needed. Since they can customize the learning material to their own needs, students have more control over their learning process and can better understand the material, leading to a 60% faster learning curve

Training Magazine reported that technology-based training has proven to have a 50–60% better consistency of learning than traditional classroom learning

Teaching and communication techniques which create an interactive online environment include case studies, story-telling, demonstrations, role-playing, simulations, streamed videos, online references, personalized coaching and mentoring, discussion groups, project teams, chat rooms, e-mail, bulletin boards, tips, tutorials, FAQs, and wizards.

can try new things and make mistakes without exposing themselves.

After a failure, students can go back and try again. This type of learning experience eliminates the embarrassment of failure in front of a group.

A learner may take notes on her phone and later transfers them to a laptop where she adds images and shares the document online with her study group.

a podcast to view that visually explains the concept.

tudents create flashcards that they can access from their handheld computers at home.

lm video using their cell phones and transfer it to a computer for editing.

so he instantly accesses the article about Watergate online and views the Watergate complex on an interactive map.

mobile learning provides increased options for the personalization of learning

there are plenty of opportunities for formal and informal learning, both inside and outside the classroom.

Learners that harness the power of these tools can be more productive and have resources for learning when and where they are needed.

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“We are now reaching people all around the world that, without iTunes U, we never would have touched,” said its vice-chancellor, Martin Bean, formerly the general manager of Microsoft’s education products group

Mr. Bean looks at iTunes U and YouTube as free marketing — an opportunity to take “all those active inquiries and those leisure learners and expose them to who we are as a university.

Other universities say that limited resources, copyright concerns or the reluctance of old-fashioned professors are keeping them from recording and uploading lectures.

The courage comes from taking the next leap of faith. Universities no longer define themselves by their content but the overall experience: the concept, the student support, the tutoring and mentoring, the teaching and learning they get and the quality of the assessment.”