Rapid eLearning Isn't Throwing eLearning Courses Together in a Hurry

Rapid eLearning Isn't Throwing eLearning Courses Together in a Hurry

Human Resource Managers want quality e-learning programs that can be customized quickly and inexpensively. Quite often this leads them to settle for online training programs that are little more than a Powerpoint presentation with a Subject Matter Expert giving a long, tiresome lecture. The idea that rapid e-learning means fast creation, customization, and implementation of e-learning programs is a false notion that is leading many Human Resource Managers to waste organization funds and employee time on e-learning programs that do not meet their objectives.

The foremost objective of any teaching situation, whether in a classroom, e-learning, or online training program is to fully engage the learner in order to achieve maximum retention. Put simply: get the student interested so they will actually learn something. Listening to a Subject Matter Expert drone on for an hour might be okay for college students, but for busy professionals the retention rates are low.

Rapid e-learning refers not to the pace with which an e-learning provider can implement a program within an organization, though that is of course an important component. The term refers to a particular method of e-learning teaching that respects that busy professionals do not have time to step away from their work duties in order to train.

Professionals and Human Resources Managers alike seek rapid e-learning because it can be done in the workplace. Okay, most online training programs can be applied to workplace settings. But rapid e-learning is designed in such a way as to be completed in short amounts spread out over time. The idea is to allow busy professionals and other employees alike to engage in e-learning in between performing other job tasks. For example, a Financial Controller might only have 20 minutes between meetings all day long on a regular basis. She cannot afford hours of online training; she has other places to be. Rapid e-learning programs are broken up so that she can access and complete portions of the programs, even in less than 20 minutes between meetings.

They key to rapid e-learning is that it must be well presented in order to achieve very fast transfer of information and get the necessary added result of improved performance by the learner. This is where many rapid e-learning programs fall short. Rapid to produce is important, but some methods used to get there keep the project from meeting other top criteria. All rapid e-learning programs should be carefully considered in these terms: rate and cost of production, program designed to be completed in fragments, successful rapid rate of information transfer (interactivity is important to achieve this goal), and is proven to have a positive effect on employee performance. If all these criteria are met, then a program truly is rapid e-learning. If the learning objectives are not met, then it is not rapid e-learning, it is a poorly designed program.

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