In today's world of corporations and employees re-engineering themselves to keep up with an ever changing economic and market environment, training has become one of the top issues faced by utilities. Not only is training important to move an employee from a new starting position to productivity quickly, but it is a way to enhance and retain those who add value.

Internet training is gaining stronger recognition amongst Human Resource, Work Force Development, and Training Departments because it is timely, efficient, and cost effective. A new survey conducted in 2001 by Taylor Nelson Sofres found that 85% of U.S. and Canadian corporations will increase their eLearning spending over the next year. Sixty-seven percent of those businesses presently using eLearning cited the main benefits that they have achieved through eLearning are workforce effectiveness and improved workforce retention.

Another set of statistics from a survey conducting during the 2001 eLearning conference in Washington D.C. show the primary benefits of eLearning over traditional classroom learning are:

Available anytime, anywhere
Cost savings
Allows for "self-paced" learning
Provides just-in-timeLearning

These are not the only benefits, but over 50% of the respondents named these as the primary benefits.

eLearning still has some minor barriers to overcome such as bandwidth and cultural resistance. These can be easily overcome by dealing with a vendor who works closely with the IT department for the development and integration of eLearning courseware for the former, and building interesting and fun media-rich eLearning with intuitive navigation for the latter. If you want to know --- Apogee Interactive is precisely that kind of vendor!