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E-Learning: implementation, advantages and disadvantages

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Romina Iaconelli |

Let's start by defining “E-Learning”. E-learning is a training system whose main characteristic is that it is carried out over the Internet or connected to the network.


This type of online teaching allows the user to interact with the material through the use of various computer tools.


This teaching can be focused on children, adults or companies, although in this article we will focus on e-learning in companies.

E-Learning Features:


  • Ease of use.
  • Multimedia system (text, audio, video, image).
  • The distances between transmitter and receiver disappear.
  • It is much more economical than traditional training methods.
  • Very interactive.
  • Incredibly accessible.

Its advantages include:


* Reduction in training costs:


While the investment is initial and maintenance, we avoid the costs of travel, accommodation or teaching materials that are required when training is in person. This is especially important when we are talking about large organizations with different locations across the world.


* Immediacy:


Once connected, any type of communication can be carried out quickly and easily, both by students and between students and tutors.


* Flexibility:


While in-person training requires a fixed schedule, online training offers the flexibility of being able to connect at any time from various devices, as long as the Internet is available.


* Accessibility:


Content can be accessed from professional teachers and educators located anywhere in the world.


* Diversity:


Learning from other cultures by including different points of view in the teaching process

Expansion: establishing contacts with people, expanding networking possibilities.


* Opportunities:


In e-learning there are opportunities for everyone: managers, directors, entrepreneurs, mothers, and in general, anyone with limited time and extraordinary responsibilities has the opportunity to access valuable content that supports their personal and professional growth at their own pace and time.

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The main changes that are occurring in education due to the arrival of e-learning can be determined as:


  • The role of teacher and student has changed, with the student now being the focus of education and not a teacher giving a class in the same way to 10, 20, 50 or 100 students at a time.
  • It encourages self-training and avoids direct dependence of the student on the teacher.
  • New professional profiles have been created, such as designers of both content and activities.

There is a great truth and that is that new ways of imparting and absorbing knowledge are becoming more and more important. Virtual and distance models for higher education report an annual growth rate of 30%, according to the report “Distance higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean”.


It has been proven that other educational models different from the traditional mold continue to gain ground.


On this subject, OBS Business School professor Yuri Ustrov explained that online training has been part of the reality of millions of people around the world for years, not only students, but also teachers, school managers and, without a doubt, information and communication technology (ICT) specialists. “The business and work worlds have become very competitive environments, where it is necessary to keep up with technological progress.


Continuing education is one of the pillars of professional survival and e-learning plays a relevant role in this regard," he said.


However, the growth of online education has not been without its challenges, given that since its creation in the early 1960s, this type of education has been constantly criticized for its apparent lack of quality control.

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Among the most frequently mentioned disadvantages are:


  • Lack of quality control
  • Possibility of obtaining physical deliverable material
  • Possibility of knowledge exchange between students
  • Difficulty in completing courses by students
  • Effort to monitor the training plan of each student or user

For all this, your Online Training Academy G-Talent.Net thought of an alternative solution by creating a system that will support you in the Management and Training of your employees.


Our Online Training Academy has:


  • Hundreds of contents aimed at enhancing soft and hard skills
  • Permanent development of new courses under the modality of digital content curation
  • Weighting of courses by users or students
  • Evaluate the platform by leaders or administrators
  • Satisfaction surveys
  • Our courses have downloadable materials such as: articles, infographics and manuals that complement the training
  • Active forums for exchange between users or students
  • Automatic follow-up emails and notifications
  • A complete panel for monitoring individual or group training
  • Complete and dynamic reports downloadable in various formats

6 tips for its implementation


  1. Carry out an intrigue campaign or launch the platform you have defined to provide the training
  2. Create support groups between the areas so that they can collaborate in understanding and completing the content.
  3. Ask the contracted company if it can provide you with manuals, videos or infographics that facilitate the explanation of the use of the platform.
  4. Reward workers who have initiative and are interested in progressing and completing their assigned courses.
  5. Train your employees on the advantages of e-learning training, the freedom to absorb knowledge quickly and at their own pace.
  6. Choose a platform that is easy to use and very intuitive. This will help employees accept it more easily and use it more frequently.

E-learning training is undoubtedly a great support for companies and their employees, allowing training to be much more flexible, thus adjusting to the availability of each individual to be able to consume the content whenever and wherever they want.

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