How to Ensure a Rapid and Cost-efficient eLearning Solution?

Enterprises are increasingly recognizing the need for an eLearning solution to effectively meet training needs for the modern workplace. But, implementing an enterprise eLearning solution to revamp corporate training has its challenges that can limit the success of your eLearning implementation. Here are a few challenges that most enterprises face while rolling out an eLearning solution:

1. Development from Scratch Requires Significant Investments

Developing an eLearning program requires significant initial investments. Content creation alone can cost enough to swallow the whole training budget if you haven’t planned for it optimally. Pre-made programs mitigate these costs but they still require a considerable amount of investment. 

2. Internal Resistance

Implementing an enterprise eLearning solution is very likely to be resisted by the employees at first. What companies don’t understand is that by rolling out an enterprise-wide eLearning solution, they’re changing the way training is delivered. This means that every entity of the training process, from developers and trainers, to managers and employees, will be required to change their ways.

3. Diverse Training Needs

All of the training needs cannot be met using eLearning programs. They need the right blend of eLearning with other delivery methods like classroom training, ILT, or on-the-job, to ensure retentive and engaging learning experiences. Following methods and practices from other organizations or planning an eLearning implementation with uninformed inputs from the management can make your heavy investments go amiss.

4. High Management Expectations

High management expectations from an enterprise eLearning roll-out is also one of the biggest challenges for a successful eLearning implementation. It skews the learning objectives and makes them distorted rather than being fact and data-driven. This can be highly detrimental to the efficacy of the eLearning program.

Recommendations for a Quick and Cost-Effective eLearning Implementation

All these challenges can marginally increase the costs and development time for your enterprise eLearning course. Here are three key elements that ensure that you develop and roll out your enterprise-wide eLearning project swiftly and at a very low cost.

1. Understanding Mission-Critical Roles

You need a project manager or a stakeholder, a subject matter expert, multimedia designer, and instructional designer for your eLearning program to be well-structured, engaging, and effective. By assembling a team that encompasses each of these -critical roles, you will ensure that your course development goes according to your training needs and resources. 

2. Standardize Development using Templates

By standardizing the GUI, the interactivities, and assessments for a particular program, you can ensure that your enterprise eLearning solutions get developed faster. This not only marginally cuts development time and costs but also makes updating the courses easy.

3. Outsource

With many eLearning authoring tools out there, outsourcing may seem like an inappropriate option if you have a design team. Outsourcing might be a preposterous option if you want to develop a single eLearning course. But, to develop an enterprise eLearning solution, you need to create a large number of courses with high eLearning design standards. Rather than wasting the intellectual capital of your instructional designers, it is more cost-effective and efficient to outsource eLearning development.

To sum up, these were some of the key elements that you can consider to ensure rapid and cost-effective implementation of your enterprise eLearning project.

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