What is e-learning?

In brief "electronic learning"

This means that e-learning courses that your employees go through on their own with a PC, tablet or smartphone. They can be designed as everything from ordinary PowerPoint presentations, video clips or highly sophisticated interactive applications.
E-learning can be used in virtually every industry and in almost all types of workouts. For example, product training, sales training, IT (including simulation and screen recordings) and etc.
Most e-learning courses are purely web-based and can be taken anywhere in the world and at any time of day. E-learning is to make training and education extremely flexible and scalable.

Requirements for e-learning

All your employees need is a computer or other device (tablet or smartphone) with Internet access.
Often the courses are presented via a learning management system, which controls your employees' progress and flow through the course while record results, which are usually only if e-learning course provides access to a final diploma. Via these LMS systems, your employees can also participate in discussions with other students and receive support from training providers and trainers.

E-learning content

E-learning can be built up of a mix of audio, video, narration, animation, graphics and interaction.
This image shows many of the elements that may be included in an e-learning course which should be a good mix from all 4 corners.

Advantages and disadvantages of e-learning

The biggest advantage is that your staff can review the course præsis when it suits you or them, anywhere they can access the Internet. As a manager or owner of a company providing e-learning you to train your employees far cheaper and more effective than traditional training methods, while you can easily follow the development and impact of your courses.

A disadvantage may be activation of employees, as it requires self-discipline to study on their own. In addition, e-learning only simulate real events and not be used where the course includes physical examinations.

It is cheaper

Savings on transport, accommodation and food is an obvious advantage of e-learning, but at the same time there are also a lot of money saved compared to temporary workers and halted production. E-learning also allows you to use courses in companies that are geographically dispersed.

It starts here

Vestergaard & Co produces both standard e-learning courses and completely customized solutions.
We only use professional writers, speakers, graphic designers, programmers and standardized tools for the production of e-learning courses. We can even offer to train your staff in the use of such Adobe Captivate so you even can make the most basic courses.

Call Rene at 98 51 00 30 and make a good start!