The mission of corporate eLearning is to supply the workforce with an up-to-date and cost-effective program that yields motivated, skilled, and loyal knowledge workers.
echnical obstacles, such as access, standards, infrastructure, and bandwidth, will not be an issue in a few years
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.
One outcome from ICT is the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, which expanded during the last decade. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative played an important role in instigating the OER movement around the world
Turkish OCW Consortium was formed with twenty-four member universities in the leadership of TAS (Yazici et al., 2008). The number in the consortium has since increased to forty-eight. Initiating an OCW project at an institution requires careful planning of resources and vision
instructors in Turkey are the key players at this early stage of the movement and it is important to understand their perceptions and tendencies in relation to publishing their course materials
What benefits do faculty members accrue from publishing course materials freely on the Internet?
What barriers do faculty members face when they want to publish course materials freely on the Internet?
What incentives would enable faculty members to publish course materials freely on the Internet?