The Corona crisis has hit the continuing education sector hard. But what does the future look like? A survey by seminarmarkt shows the most important form of learning after the crisis for trainers and companies.

Even though the (first) Corona wave is slowly flattening, the continuing education sector remains under pressure: Little personal contact and rapid digitalization could sustainably change the industry. The impact of the Corona crisis on continuing education has been investigated by the platform seminarmarkt.de in two surveys. Among other things, it looks at what the future of continuing education after Corona will look like:

After the crisis, the continuing education sector will be a mix of online-based services and classic face-to-face interactions.

Over 83% of the 322 continuing education experts surveyed supported the combination of learning forms. Almost 11% see the future of continuing education back in traditional face-to-face settings. Only 3.5% favored purely digital education via video chat. A clear result.

Online + Presence = Blended Learning

The combination of face-to-face and online learning is also called “Blended Learning”. For years, Blended Learning has topped many surveys of the best forms of learning, including the mmb trend monitor 2019 and trend monitor 2020.

Blended Learning is the perfect answer to the two biggest effects of the Corona crisis: Less personal contact in face-to-face trainings. And at the same time, the strong digitalization in favor of eLearning.

Even though eLearning is booming due to the crisis: Many educators and companies do not want to forgo personal contact. Blended Learning enables the ideal combination of both learning forms. The concept is realized on special learning platforms like blink.it.

All participants benefit from Blended Learning:

• Trainers establish a partially digital second offering.

• Companies save time and budgets for elaborate face-to-face events.

• Employees learn with better practical transfer, independent of time and place.

Whether for trainers or companies: If the forecasts are correct, Blended Learning will be the most important form of learning after the Corona crisis. To continue offering your customers or employees contemporary forms of learning, you should start researching this now.

The first step is our overview “7 Arguments for Blended Learning in Companies.” Download the free PDF and prepare for continuing education after the crisis!