Top Benefits of Virtual Classroom Training
Bradford R. GlaserOnline training and e-learning have become increasingly popular methods for employee learning, training, and teaching in recent years. So popular, in fact, that the e-learning market is projected to be worth $325 billion by 2025.
The uptick in e-learning popularity has occurred for many reasons. For starters, virtual classroom training is seamless, efficient, and effective. It also yields actionable results that can boost companies’ financial success. There are many benefits of virtual classroom training. In this post, we’ll highlight some of the best reasons to take your training virtual!
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Higher ROI
According to TechJury, a survey of 2,500 companies found that those who engaged in comprehensive training programs have 218% higher revenue per employee and up to 24% higher profit margins. Online training can create even more revenue potential. As TechJury notes, e-learning has increased income for 42% of US organizations. The numbers don’t lie.
Flexibility that Fits Your Schedule
One of the most obvious benefits of virtual classroom training is the flexibility that it can offer students. The accessibility and flexibility that e-learning can provide students and workers via an online platform is incomparable. With online modules, employees can work learning and training into their schedule, not the other way around. Lessons can happen during lunch breaks, at home after work, in the morning before they clock in, during acceptable downtime on the job, etc. This degree of flexibility is impossible with in-person, face-to-face learning.
Even with instructor-led training, scheduling can be made much easier when going virtual, as instructors can provide training from anywhere. Plus, workshops can be recorded for later instruction among team members.
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Budget-Friendly
When done properly, virtual classroom training can be much more affordable than traditional training. As one example, IBM saved approximately $200 million after switching to eLearning! Here’s why you can save big with virtual training over on-site training:
- Eliminate travel costs. You’re not required to pay for a trainer to fly, drive, or be transported to your location, which means you’re not required to pay for their accommodations, either.
- Eliminate classroom costs. Classroom costs are non-existent (as there is no physical classroom).
- Include more learners. You’re able to include more people in virtual training sessions, because there’s no size restriction, room limitation, or other physical factor that would affect how many people can join a class. Because of that, you can typically lower the price per person.
Increased Retention Rates
Interactive and engaging training sessions are effective. When you couple that with the ability to offer training sessions wherever your employees are, you increase the likelihood of retention. In fact, e-learning and virtual classroom training can increase retention rates by 25%-60%. By comparison, retention rates for face-to-face learning are relatively low, at about 8%-10%.
Immediate Feedback & Review
In most cases, and certainly in HDRQ’s case, immediate feedback is available to help learners gauge how well they understood the information. In traditional, face-to-face classrooms, feedback can take days, even weeks – and by the time it’s provided, it simply won’t be as powerful. If a student or employee can access that feedback immediately, they can understand more quickly where they went wrong, what they didn’t understand, and make a more focused, quicker effort to address it again.
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