EDUC 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Online Degree
27 May 2020
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Advantages for organization: all trainees receive the same training (consistency). Large numbers can be trained in a short period: train across the globe (international business), track trainees" performance (useful for regulatory compliance and to monitor progress). Increase efficiencies and cost savings: flexibility and convenience (employees can access it according their own schedules and when they need it), can be strategic, an investment to support business strategies such as time-based competition, increase customer loyalty. Less interpersonal contact (contributes to feelings of social isolation): potential computer illiteracy. Increases anxiety: online degrees not yet seen as equivalent to those attained via more traditional means (if completed outside the organization), loss of hand-raising ability (immediate feedback is compromised in asynchronous courses). Disadvantages to the organization: resistance to technology-based training, cost and complexity of development, obsolescence due to evolution of technology, authoring tools, etc, lack of ownership or control of the content, content is often developed by external vendors.
