Margaret Aspin
eLearning makes a lot of sense for industry especially if the industry has a flexible workforce.
Flexible working consists of more than part timers, shift workers, RDOs and flexi-time. Now we have mobile workers who drive around using their hand held computers and mobile phones to connect back to the office, back into networks and databases. We have people working from home more and logging back into work, and we send people to work overseas yet expect them to manage timezones via electronic communications.
Getting people together for all training is not as easy as it used to be, and with modern eLearning tools certain training can be conducted outside the training room. Nowadays the national training system has developed an enormous amount of eLearning materials for use by industry. Training organisations such as TAFEs and private registered training providers are able to tap into the resources and use them for just about every industry setting.
The main thing is finding the right training partner to help you train your flexible workforce. In other words you need to find a flexible training provider to meet the needs of a flexible workforce don't you?
Some providers say they deliver using eLearning but do they really? What if this means putting word documents up and no support for your staff?
Like all things, it pays to do your homework. Don't go on price first, go on what they do for your staff and how they support you. Tools and people are available for industry to work out what they need and help them ask the right questions of the providers. Yes we do just that and you can easily give us a ring. We'll come out and help you work it out.
