Maintain Traditional Class Structure

Web-based collaboration tools have made instructors mobile, allowing them to deliver instruction to students in separate locations. They allow instructors to give live skill demonstrations followed by interactive exercises that students perform to reinforce learning more rapidly.

Enhanced Interaction and Collaboration

The Web-based teaching media is similar to on-site teaching mediums:

On site instructors project their screens on the wall for all of the students to see what the instructor is doing as they are doing it. Web conferencing enables instructors to share their screens through the internet with the desktop sharing mechanism.

On site instructors get feedback from students by asking them to raise their hands. Students can do the same thing while attending web-based instructions by simply clicking on a button to raise their hand or to respond to a poll.

Another feature not found in on-site training classrooms is that the instructor can grant privileges to students providing the ability to control the instructor’s screen or share their own screens with the entire group.

Reduced Costs

Any time an organization considers how it can educate its employees; a top concern is the total cost. Total cost takes into account the course price per employee and the additional travel costs which include airfare or gas + mileage, lodging, meals and local transportation. Web based instruction eliminates all those travel costs, and also saves employees from the time spent during transportation.

The students just need to be able to access a high speed internet connection, a telephone, and a web browser; all of which are standard tools in the office environment.

Additionally, because class sizes are small, instructors are usually able to cover material faster using web-collaboration tools than in traditional on-site classes, and this further reduces the total cost of the class.

Ease of connecting instructors and students from different locations

Web Conference collaboration tools allow you to simultaneously reach students from different geographic locations. Students from Europe, Asia, the Americas, etc, can join the same session, taught by the same instructor at the appropriate local time.

In the age of global enterprise, this greatly enhances an organization’s ability to providing the same training to traveling professionals as well as partners/coworkers who are based in different areas.

Greater Scheduling Flexibility

One of the greatest advantages is the scheduling flexibility. Students are typically away from their duties only for 2-4 hours at a time. Therefore, work does not pile up and get delayed while employees are learning a new skill or application.

Web-based instruction: A flexible and cost-effective choice

We deliver value to the business by allowing real-time learning. The following chart summarizes the benefits of Web-based training compared to on-site instruction:

	On-site training	Web-based training
• Live Instructor
• Interactive Hands-on exercises
• Flexible scheduling
• Class Discussion
• Reduced Costs
• Instructor Maintains student focus
• Lessons integrating students in different locations

Companies adopting web-based education will capture the value that on-site instruction provides. The positive trade off from on-site to web-based training will result on effective learning, and positive return on investment.

Our web instructors know how to maximize the medium’s opportunities. Instructional material is designed specifically for web-based training. Students are empowered, encouraged to participate online, and rewarded accordingly.

For more information on how our web-based trainings can help your company deploy an effective learning strategy, please contact us at info@ayekan.com