Advantages of Web Based Training

  1. Access to training is available anytime, anywhere. Online courses can be taken in multiple sittings and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - to better accommodate both students and trainers. Access is controllable - You can easily direct and monitor who receives web training -when, how many times, and in what sequence.

  2. Online training is more affordable than traditional classroom training, with estimated savings of 60% or more.

  3. Content is easily updated -the changes you make to any of your content is immediately available to your learning audience. Web-based training content is instantly updateable without republishing manuals, CD ROMs, books, videos, and tapes.

  4. Web-based training potentially replaces 100 percent of classroom, video, audio, and text-based training.

  5. Web-based training provides consistent training that does not depend on different trainers or training methods. This assures that important material is always presented and can benefit in areas of liability when training material is required.

  6. Web-based training is deliverable on-demand to any web browser, anywhere.

  7. Web-based training provides easy delivery of training to users.

  8. It gives opportunities for individual training (asynchronous ) or group training (synchronous).

  9. Courses can be set up for students to learn at their own pace or according to a prior scheduling of classes over a particular set of dates.

  10. It also provides direct access to many other training resources - The Internet gives access to the largest library in the world. You can capitalize on the offerings that have already been created, and use them to enhance the learning you are distributing.

Fact: Web-based training (WBT) increases both productivity and learning. Classroom training generally requires a trainer, a room, materials and enough students to make the training worth the time and effort. With WBT, each student can access training exactly when it's needed at a time and location convenient for that particular student. What is more the training can be accomplished away from the working position. This means that you don't need to take equipment out of operational use.

Fact: WBT also takes less time than classroom training. Some studies have shown it to reduce training time per student by about 50 percent. Most WBT programs enable the training to be customized to meet a particular student's needs. So instead of sitting in a training session where little of the information is relevant to any individual, students can focus on what's most important to their specific needs.

Fact: Another reason for WBT's popularity is that people learn at different speeds. This can make it difficult for a trainer to cover all of the material in sufficient depth for everyone in the room yet still adhere to a timetable/lesson plan. This benefits both the slower learners and the fast uptake learners (one can keep up with the course material and the other can dig deeper into the material).

Web-based training can provide a fully interactive experience where students can not only learn but also test their new-found knowledge. They can also practice their new skills and experiment with what they have learned in a safe and personally comfortable environment.