Is E- Learning preferable in businesses?

Valid point made by Mr.Gaurav,moreover e-learning permits the delivery of knowledge and information to learners at an accelerated pace, opening up new vistas of knowledge transfer.Infact E-learning in India has been most successful in the corporate segment where it is seen as a means of achieving business goals and motivating employees.

The major advantage of E- learning is the consistency that it provides. e-learning is self-paced, and learning is done at the learner’s pace. The content can be repeated until it is understood by the trainee. It can be made compelling and interesting with multimedia, and the trainee can be given multiple learning paths depending on his or her needs.In the end I would say that e-learning is very useful in order to meet its communication needs and seize business opportunities.

I think the mistake we're making here is assuming that e-learning is just another term for Web-based learning. I think that e-learning, or online learning, is much, much more than that. In my opinion, e-learning is unique BECAUSE it allows long-term, sustained interaction between learners--so if I participate in an e-learning program today, I can be in touch with a large number of fellow participants and have continual exchanges with them about new insights or observations or learning that I might have got.... So the key really lies in USING the facilities available in e-learning to their fullest extent (think discussion boards, RSS feeds, newsletters, forums, etc.), rather than just making a few HTML or flash pages available to learners!

Yes I too agree with Mr. Gaurav here that Today its more about Virtualization, where most of the teams all over the world are doing this virtual conference than the actual conference, which is saving cost like anything and this is the trend even in some of the small companies in India are also following where most of the sales meetings and the review meetings are done in virtual conference rooms where teams from various states are connected together, So yes E-learning is preferable in business. And this is the future which cuts the travel which is more time consuming.

Audio-conferencing, WBT or teleseminar is an effective way to learn the anything, not only of IT industry but for any professional and for students also. it's maim advantage is cost saving. You can get an audio conference conducted in just the 1/10 cost of conduction a face to face seminar.

I am from this industry, and our company is doing this audio conferencing business in US for the last 8 years and we are a leading provider of such service in US. Moreover, we are planing to launch this in India. It is a wrong notion that it puts the onus on the student to learn themselves. If you look closely at the traditional seminars, they also work in the same way as WBT.

I would say that, this type of learning mechanism is here to stay more than ever before beacuse of recent downturn that world has seen.