Although e-learning is by far the most popular of technological tools to help with training activity, learning and development teams’ poor knowledge, skills and confidence are the top barriers to successful adoption.
According to a survey among 600 organisations undertaken by benchmarking organisation, Towards Maturity, 72% were convinced that learning technologies would help them respond faster to changing business conditions.
This included complying with new regulations, supporting organisational change and increasing productivity in particular. The figure represented an increase of 11% over 2010.
The report also revealed that online surveys and questionnaires (76%) and virtual meetings (65%) were the most widely employed learning technologies behind e-learning courses (89%).
But there was also an increase in the use of video content-sharing (49%), virtual classrooms (46%) and mobile technologies (39%), which is now starting to move into the mainstream.
The full benchmark report will be published on 10 November when it will be available to download from the Towards Maturity website.
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Great Post
Learning technology is very much the way forward and it is not surprising that eLearning is so widely used. Learning technology is a tool used to improve the quality of the learning process, however, it is up to the organisations to train their employees and implement the content effectively. If the content of your training programmes is poor, learning technology will not improve it, it will only improve the processes of learning development.
— Dave Evans, commercial director at accessplanit, specialising in training administration software and learning management system.