In recent years, eLearning has been widely popular, especially after the standardizing of learning technologies and approaches. In eLearning, clear instructions play a very important role in helping learners navigate through the course and take the actions required of them. This is especially true in the case of learners who are not very familiar with online learning and who find it difficult to intuitively move around within the given interface.

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Adult learning is based on the principle of the self-starting, self-directed, self-motivated, autonomous learner who accepts responsibility for his own learning and can manage his own learning effectively. In reality, for many learners ’self-managed’ could sound a bit scary, given that in the past, our educational system put the learning controls firmly in the hands of instructors. This, coupled with instructor led training experiences in the corporate world could have sometimes unknowingly fostered the belief that unless an instructor tells you what to learn and handholds you through the process, learning is difficult. This is a dangerous belief of course, because with employees facing new challenges constantly, they can’t afford to wait for someone to tell them how to do something and when. The controls of learning have to shift back into the hands of the learner.

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If you had to answer a simple Yes/No question on whether you are ready for eLearning, on what basis would you respond to it? To answer that question, you will have to check the readiness of your organization for adopting eLearning. There are many surveys in the market that can help you assess this. Alternatively, you could come up with your own survey. To help you get started, here are a few quick questions to ask yourself and other stakeholders in your organization to figure out if you are eLearning ready.

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Traditionally trainers have used the Kirkpatrick method for gauging course effectiveness. For traditional classroom training, this was just about the only way to measure effectiveness, but unfortunately (or not) it’s heavily based on student feedback and consequentially student emotion. In today’s world of eLearning, there is no instructor per se, so using a method involving primarily the Human Factor may not give an accurate analysis of the course performance or even the Return on Investment (ROI).

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When you think of e-learning, what comes to mind? I think everyone now uses e-learning in some form and most of us do so without realizing it. In the simplest possible terms, just hooking onto the Internet and reading how to use a piece of software you recently purchased is e-learning because you’re using an electronic means to learn something. Get it? Now, that’s not exactly what I’m talking about, but maybe you’re getting the idea of just how much you may be using e-learning unwittingly.

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