When is a training program successful? When it is sustainably effective, cost-efficient, and flexible. All of this and much more are benefits of digital learning. Take a look now at the 9 strongest reasons why you as a HR professional or trainer should now rely on 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: With digital learning methods, your training is sustainably successful. Why? Because you can easily prepare and review seminars online. This prevents the classic bulimic learning that is still the case in many 2-day training sessions today. Because who remembers the contents of a one-time training session 8 weeks later? With digital learning methods like blended learning, the knowledge stays in the mind long-term – and is regularly applied in practice!
Lower Costs
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 costs for meals and accommodation
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 preserving our world. Enable sustainable learning on two levels!
No Loss of Time
Time is money, but time also influences the motivation of trainers and participants. Who wants to be stuck in traffic for hours or frantically searching for connecting trains? With digital training, you enable your trainers to save time and nerves while traveling. Additionally, the commute to and from a digital training is eliminated for participants. This leaves more time for learning and the practical application of the knowledge gained!
Spatial Flexibility
Clearly: With digital learning methods, you are much more flexible than with traditional in-person training. Especially companies with multiple locations benefit from this advantage. All employees can participate in e-learning while in-person seminars either have to take place multiple times or incur high travel costs. Furthermore, the annoying 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
With digital training, the transparency for trainers, HR developers, and executives increases significantly: With the right learning tool, you can always get an overview of the current learning progress of individual participants. This advantage should of course not be used solely for monitoring and coercion. Instead, the high transparency allows you to recognize and address potential problems. If passing a course is necessary, you can not only facilitate this function digitally but also quickly review it later and filter afterwards.
You can also achieve high transparency digitally through easily adjustable feedback queries. You can design these in the online course so that the participants truly fill out the survey. 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 naturally reuse their content repeatedly. But he or she has to deliver the seminar anew each time! This is different in e-learning. Here you can easily copy courses, adjust them at various points, and reuse them. Thanks to the aforementioned transparency, it is also easier for you to continuously improve content and methods over time.
Transferring to 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 turn to the advantages for learners: Although the thesis of the 4 learning types according to Vester has now been disproven, there are still various preferences in learning. Some learn exclusively through videos, while others can also memorize content well in text form. The learning pace is particularly individual! This is solely because everyone has a different daily rhythm, different schedules, and obligations.
Motivation through Multimedia
As mentioned above, the auditory and visual learning types are a myth. Because for all of us, the rule applies: 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 even interactive methods like quizzes or surveys, they are all a breeze digitally. This increases the fun of learning and thus also the motivation and learning success.
Example of an online course with a welcome via video: By using multimedia elements, you increase the motivation of the participants.
Another advantage is that you can easily add newly discovered learning content (for example, a new YouTube video on your topic) afterwards to your e-learning.
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Comprehensive Peer Exchange
In digital training, everyone can learn in peace alone. But that's not necessary! There are also numerous methods in digital learning that enable collaboration and exchange among each other. Because anyone who has ever participated in a group training knows: The input from others is invaluable. With e-learning, you can enable long-term exchange among the course participants.
Since we are all not machines and social interaction face-to-face is important, we at blink.it recommend the blended learning method: This combines all the advantages of digital training with the one unbeatable advantage of in-person training: Human closeness.
Reading Tip: Teamwork in a Different Way: 4 Methods for Digital Collaboration
All 9 Reasons at a Glance
Here are all the advantages of digital training at a glance:
Sustainable Learning Effect
Lower Costs
No Loss of Time
Spatial Flexibility
High Transparency
Reusability par Excellence
Addressing Different Learning Preferences
Motivation through Multimedia
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.
