5 Factors Affecting Online Training for Employees

Back in the days, all the training course that was organized by the employers were live. Well, the time has changed and the current generation wants everything at their doorstep which has led the training from live to online. Convenient, isn’t it? Entailing online training course to the employees is a two-way beneficial process. Employees can learn from any remote location and they don’t need to be present at the office premises. Coming to the employer part, they don’t need to arrange resources for imparting training. Without faffing around, let’s just jump on to the factors that aid in building online training course for the employees.

1) eLearning must be clear and measurable

The basic objective of eLearning is to educate the employees and assist them in uplifting their skills. Now, this can be through sites and apps. Well, there are a plethora of online training courses that don’t work just because they don’t portray their objective in a clear manner. This makes determining the learning goals on high priority and also drawing the roadmap how these learning goals are to be accomplished. To start with, you must analyze what you want your employees to gain once the learning is done. So, if you are a company indulged in app development, you must determine you want to award your employees with PHP training, Android training or iPhone training? To get the maximum impact, connect with the head of the concerned department and discuss the scope, needs and desired results.

2) Define the length and language

To make the training a success for the employer, the employee must learn things adequately and in a way that he can implement those things and make the employer’s business lucrative. Well, monetary gain is not the only focal point of the training session, learning new things and incorporating it into the routine and making the work more developed is also essential. To make all this happen, language is an integral chunk, you can’t take your eyes off from. If the employees get training in the language they are compatible with then they can catch it in a better manner. Also, keep a pre-determined time barrier for the training session. Too much learning at the single point of time makes the employees confused and won’t be able to digest everything at once.

3) Interactivity level

Back in the days, training was content heavy, lengthy and static. This has changed massively, now if you want to impart training, it must be engaging. With tech advancements and attractive multi-media elements, training sessions are really intimidating. With astounding audio and gorgeous graphics, learner really appreciates and adore the learning experience. Graphics and audio will help the employees to absorb the content in a better manner.

4) Self-paced learning

The booming digital market is also an aid when it comes to learning. Hire Android and iPhone app development company and your employees can get training sitting right at their home through apps. What benefit accompanies with this is that employees can also revise whenever and wherever they want. We, humans, have a short memory span that too when it comes to working, revising it time and again and will enable the employees to work at their best.

5) Take feedback

The entire training is to polish the employee’s skills and help them learn new things and work better. So, when the training session ends, take the review of the entire crew of employees, whether it was helpful, do they need something more often, if not helpful what were the drawbacks.

Author
Dhruv Ponkiya, training consultant at Developers Academy, Ahmedabad. Loves to write about the PHP, iOS and Android training and trends entering the app world.