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Online Training: What Kind of Online Education Opportunities Exist?

Introduction to Online Education

Guide to Online Education > Online Education Basics > Types of Online Education > Online Training

Job training delivered online offers flexibility to both employees and employers. The key benefit of online training is the same as with other forms of distance learning. With online training, the coursework is self-paced and is available anytime and anyplace.

Businesses are well-acquainted with sales training and customer service training for their employees. But other types of online training are becoming increasingly accessible and popular. Ethics, harassment, human resources, diversity, leadership, and management training are all available as online training courses or programs for companies to offer their employees online.

In addition, employees who want to further their professional development can select from a wide variety of training courses and certificates including project management, JAVA programming, or Sarbanes-Oxley training.

Corporate Universities

Corporate training used to consist of mandatory attendance in the conference room, before work or at lunchtime, to listen to a very dry speaker pointing to a PowerPoint slide. Workers sipped instant coffee and watched the clock. As companies have had to become more concerned with employees' growth and development, all that has begun to change thanks to online training. Corporate training has even become not only a retention strategy, but a hot recruitment tool as well.

Corporate universities draw on both internal and external resources to provide skill-enhancing programs to acclimate new employees to the company culture, and give more senior employees a way to stay current in today's business arena.

Employees are starting to make career choices based upon future marketability, not just the current compensation package. It is not hard to imagine that a job candidate weighing two offers from similar companies, would be likely to accept the offer from the company that has a "university." The prospect of being able to earn a project management certificate or Microsoft certification, on company time, would be enticing indeed.

Employers benefit because there is a company-wide approach to leadership development and there is a clear tie-in to performance goals. Employees appreciate acquiring marketable skills.

Once the universities are established, corporations seek to turn the programs into profit centers by enrolling vendors and customers.

The free trip to Hawaii to attend a team-building symposium may be a thing of the past with the adoption of elearning tools. Dell Learning (1) offers 95% of its courses on-line, up from 25% in 1996. From New Hire Orientation to the School of Finance, non-classroom based learning educates employees, corporate leadership and stockholders.

Motorola University (2) began as a means to offer training to its employees internally, but is now available to the general public. Learners can earn a Six Sigma e-Greenbelt through the on-line program.

• (1) Dell Learning, "Discover Dell Learning."
• (2) Motorola University. http://www.motorola.com/motorolauniversity.jsp.

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