When is a training course successful? When it is sustainably effective, cost-efficient, and flexible. All of this and much more are advantages of digital learning. Check out now the 9 strongest reasons why you as a HR professional or trainer should invest in digital training!

Let's not beat around the bush. Here are 9 clear advantages of digital learning in companies:

Sustainable Learning Effect

The most important advantage first: digital learning methods make your training sustainably successful. Why? Because you can easily prepare and review seminars online. This prevents the classic "bulimic learning" that is still common in many 2-day trainings today. After all, who remembers the content eight weeks after a one-time training? With digital learning methods like blended learning, what you've learned stays in your head long-term – and finds regular application in practice!

Lower Costs

Now let's move on to the second important advantage for HR developers: with digital learning methods, you save a lot of money. This is mainly due to other advantages of digital training, which will be listed below:

• Save on travel costs

• Save on food and accommodation costs

• Save on trainer costs through the reusability of content

• Save on personnel costs in the organization

PS: You also save on CO2 through digital training and thus contribute to the preservation of our world. Enable sustainable learning on two levels!

No Time Loss

Time is money, but time also affects the motivation of trainers and participants. Who wants to spend hours stuck in traffic or frantically searching for connecting trains? By offering digital training, you enable your trainers to save time and nerves on the road. For participants in digital training, the commute is eliminated. This leaves more time for learning and practical application of what has been learned!

Spatial Flexibility

It’s clear: with digital learning methods, you are much more flexible than with classic in-person training. Especially companies with multiple locations benefit from this advantage. All employees can participate in e-learning while in-person seminars either must be repeated or incur high travel costs. Additionally, the tedious search for a suitable room for training is eliminated.

Here you get a quick overview of four common learning methods, (in)dependent of space and time:

High Transparency

Through digital training, the transparency for trainers, HR developers, and managers increases significantly: with the right learning tool, you have an overview of the current learning progress of individual participants at any time. Of course, this advantage should not be used solely for monitoring and coercion. Instead, high transparency allows you to identify and address potential problems. If passing a course is necessary, you can not only facilitate this function digitally but also quickly review and filter it later.

You can also achieve high transparency digitally through easily adjustable feedback surveys. You can design these in the online course so that participants are actually encouraged to fill them out. More tips on the topic of feedback in online training can be found in the following article: 5 mistakes in feedback that you also make in your online course

Reusability par Excellence

In in-person seminars, a trainer can of course use their content again and again. But they must always conduct the seminar anew! This is different in e-learning. Here, you can easily copy courses, adapt them at any point, and reuse them. Moreover, the transparency mentioned above makes it easier for you to continuously improve content and methods over time.

The transfer into another language is also very simple. For example, create an Excel course in German, have it translated, and reuse the same course in the new language.

Addressing Different Learning Preferences

Let's talk about the advantages for learners: Although the theory of the 4 learning types according to Vester has now been disproven, there are still various learning preferences. Some learn exclusively through videos, while others can also memorize content well in text form. Especially the pace of learning is individual! Simply because everyone has a different daily rhythm, schedules, and commitments.

Motivation through Multimedia

As mentioned above, auditory and visual learning types are a myth. Because for all of us it holds true: the more learning channels are addressed, the better! You can take advantage of this fact with digital training. Whether video, presentation, pure text, audio, or interactive methods like quizzes or surveys – these are all a piece of cake digitally. This increases the enjoyment of learning and thus also boosts motivation and learning success.

Example of an online course with a welcome via video: By incorporating multimedia elements, you increase participants' motivation.

Another advantage is that you can easily add newly discovered learning content (for example, a new YouTube video on your topic) later to your e-learning.

Reading Tip: The Edutainment trend – this is how entertaining learning becomes possible

Comprehensive Peer Exchange

In digital training, everyone can learn alone in peace. But they don’t have to! There are also numerous methods in digital learning that allow for collaboration and exchange among one another. Because anyone who has ever participated in a group training knows: input from others is worth its weight in gold. With e-learning, you can facilitate long-term exchange among course participants.

Since we are all not machines and face-to-face social interaction is important, we recommend the blended learning method: this combines all the advantages of digital training with the one unbeatable advantage of in-person interaction: human closeness.

Reading Tip: Teamwork redefined: 4 methods for digital collaboration

All 9 Reasons at a Glance

Here are all the advantages of digital training at a glance:

1. Sustainable Learning Effect

2. Lower Costs

3. No Time Loss

4. Spatial Flexibility

5. High Transparency

6. Reusability par Excellence

7. Addressing Different Learning Preferences

8. Motivation through Multimedia

9. Comprehensive Peer Exchange

Have the 9 advantages of digital learning convinced you? Feel free to write to us in the comments about your experience with digital training.

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