Did you know that MindLeaders Education Services department was recently renamed "Professional Services"? I am one of the Professional Services Analysts on the team. Nice to meet you on the blog!
Our team often receives questions from trainers and Site Administrators on best practices for driving a successful online learning program. Here are a few questions you may wish to consider as you embark on your planning for e-Learning in 2009.
- How does e-Learning fit into your annual corporate goals?
- Can it be used to solve a high priority business problem?
- What was your primary purpose in making e-Learning available for employees?
- Improving employee morale or retention rates?
- Cross training employees in new skill sets?
- Retraining employees that have been displaced?
- What factors will you consider in evaluating program success?
- Student participation?
- Specific course completion?
- Student feedback?
- Basic skills acquisition?
- Skill level improvement?
- Do your managers believe they will benefit from employee access to this training? Will they commit time and resources to permit training to take place?
- What tools will you utilize to measure success?
- Scores
- Surveys
- Usage statistics?
- Are you providing any incentives (such as reward or recognition programs) to encourage student participation and program visibility?
- What would you do differently this year to motivate and inspire your students to take advantage of this opportunity for learning?
What is your experience? Do you have a success story or useful information to add? Tell us! You may either post a comment to this blog, or for more information contact Professional Services at profserv@mindleaders.com.
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