Learning at a distance is possible – the Corona pandemic has clearly shown us that. Digital learning formats have even more advantages beyond minimizing the risk of virus infection. Find out now what distance learning is all about and how this learning method can benefit your employees!
Whether it’s languages, lifestyle topics, or internal company training – you can find online learning offerings on a wide variety of subjects. The digital framework allows employees to be significantly more flexible, enabling them to participate in training even while working from home. But how does learning at a distance actually work?
Distance Learning Means Learning from Afar
The term "Distance Learning" translates to learning at a distance and implies that learners no longer need to be physically present at a specific location to participate in further training. Instead, the learning process is facilitated through online media. With formats like webinars or online courses, you convey your content and motivate learners to achieve their learning goals! This way, learners can work on their learning objectives regardless of time and location. But distance learning offers you even more advantages:
These Opportunities Distance Learning Offers You
Participating in training digitally benefits not only learners but also course leaders. Learners enjoy a high degree of flexibility as long travel times are eliminated and they can spontaneously adjust their own scheduling. As a course leader, you can better monitor the learning objectives of your participants using tools such as statistics functions in the online course! Here are the following advantages Distance Learning offers you:
Diversity: Through online training, you can reach a much larger target audience since your participants are not tied to a specific location. This allows you to offer a wide range of topics – and even for employees who do not work at your location!
Own Learning Pace: If you provide your content in online courses, your course participants can arrange their time flexibly and work through the chapters of your course at their own pace.
Work-Life Balance: Private life requires a high degree of flexibility, as unforeseen appointments can occasionally disrupt your schedule. This enables you to better reconcile work and personal life.
Cost Savings: In-person training can often be very expensive. Only those employees who attended on that day benefit. Therefore, create online courses and ensure that future employees can quickly reach the same level as their colleagues.
Adaptation of Learning Preferences: Do your employees have different focuses and therefore need different training? No problem! With the blink.it learning platform, you can duplicate and adapt already created online courses. This way, you won’t have to plan a new training for other focuses, saving time in creating your new course.
As you have seen above, online training formats have several advantages! However, there are certain aspects that you can implement better in in-person events. We present these aspects to you and simultaneously show you how you can solve these problems!
Disadvantage | Description | Our Solution |
Dull Training | Imagine sitting at home in front of your computer and having to follow an online seminar on data protection attentively. Just thinking about it, you already lack motivation? No wonder – the lack of contact with colleagues can make a dry topic even duller! | As a course creator, you can use gamification to wrap dull topics in a story and make your training popular with participants! |
Who is available for questions? | During training, questions often arise because it’s all about learning new topics and achieving learning goals. But how can your course participants contact you so that you can respond quickly and easily? | On the blink.it learning platform, your course participants can ask you questions via chat or write in the comments. This way, other participants will see your answer too! |
Lack of Interaction | The personal contact with colleagues contributes to knowledge exchange among each other. This way, your course participants get to know new perspectives and viewpoints. But how is this possible with distance learning? | Interaction with colleagues is encouraged in shared chapters. Every course participant has access to them and can comment on personal experiences. |
Additionally, you have the option to complement your online training with blended learning formats. You will learn which formats are pedagogically sound!
From Distance Learning to Blended Learning
Lecture-style teaching and rote memorization are a thing of the past – we now show you the three most popular models for combining online training with in-person events!
Do you want to achieve the optimal learning outcome? Then you should integrate in-person events with self-directed online learning phases. Depending on the model, you can tailor your training to the needs of the participants or the conditions in the company. This way, you combine the advantages of both online and offline training while offering your course participants a pedagogically meaningful learning experience!
By the way, we've already written more about distance learning. Learn more now: Online but Personal! Success in Distance Training
High flexibility through online training offers – does that sound good? Still, do you want to maintain personal contact with your course participants? Then combine the benefits of both worlds and choose one of the presented blended learning models! This way, your company benefits from training tailored to the needs and conditions of your employees!
