Email learning tool offers more inclusive training
Email learning tool offers more inclusive training
Nov 03, 2004: Custom e-learning provider The Learning Group has introduced a new business to employee (B2E) technology that can be used to send training modules to busy employees, instead of waiting for them to come and get it.
Learning Mail enables training managers and learning and development administrators to create small chunks of learning, then schedule and ‘push’ them to targeted employees using email technology.
The basic premise is to make e-learning more accessible and encourage employees to give it higher priority.
Additionally, it also gives managers and administrators the tools to create blended learning solutions, greater control over scheduling, and saves time by generating automated reminder and follow-up emails.
"One of the biggest problems with e-learning is getting employees to actually take it," said Mickey Clark, managing director of The Learning Group. “They may be short of time or put off by the need to log onto a centralised system, and as a result e-learning slips down their to-do lists and is sometimes never gotten around to.
"Learning Mail places itself onto the employees’ radar by appearing as a normal email in their inbox. And although Learning Mail uses standard email technology as a delivery system, it is interactive and trackable. It is designed to deliver highly concentrated learning that can present a variety of learning tasks such as case studies, refreshers, quizzes or surveys."
Clark added that the company believes the introduction of the application is very timely because new requirements in Equal Employment Opportunity, Privacy, Occupational Health & Safety, financial reporting and international governance standards mean companies are required to have documented certainty that their staff are trained in order to comply.
“We feel that a new approach is required in order to create real behavioural change from training – this represents a new generation of e-learning, as it doesn’t simply assume employees will have the time or initiative to search out and find their training."
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