Best for Concept and skills training

• Gain from questions asked by others: The learners receive additional knowledge through explanations given by the instructor while resolving questions on-the-spot.
• Participate in group discussions: The learners can brainstorm and clarify their understanding of the subject with others.
• Evaluation: The instructor can evaluate the learners’ levels of understanding and provide coaching and support.
• Synchronous: The learners and the instructor are in face-to-face contact with each other.
• Query resolution: The instructor can resolve the queries and doubts of the learners during the instruction.
• Fast and Flexible: For both delivery and development.
• Easily Updatable

• Instructor-paced: Typically, younger learners move through content at a faster pace than older learners.
• Expensive
• Limited Scalability

Best for:

• Basic training
• A component of ILT
• Facts, procedures, or basic skills training

• Classrooms anywhere
• Synchronous (instructor and learner)
• Less expensive
• Easy to deploy and maintain
• Can record sessions
• Easy edits/modifications to content
• Self-paced, reuse, reference

• Network traffic – slow, unpredictable
• Learner motivation may be problematic, since engagement more difficult

Best suited for informational, inspirational, and procedural content or if action is required to teach content (exercise videos; driver’s education)

• Self-paced
• Scalable
• Flexible (on demand)

• No student interaction
• Expensive
• Content updating impossible

Best suited for Subjects in which elaborate multimedia elements are required to facilitate learning.

• Self-paced: The learners can set their own pace.
• Time and place flexibility: The learners can access the CBT at their own pace and time.
• Simulation: Real-life environment can be simulated to teach the learners.

• Asynchronous – One-way – The learners and the instructor do not interact face-to-face.
• Monotonous – Learning through a CBT might become monotonous, and the learner may lose interest.
• Content updating not possible:After you deliver a CBT to the learners, the content cannot be updated.

Best suited for:

• When the learners are globally scattered
• Where the content requires frequent updates.

• Updating content is easy: The content in a WBT can be easily updated by the instructor.
• Chat forums & Email facility: Facilities such as chat forums and e-mail can be incorporated in a WBT. This enables the learners to clarify their questions.
• Links to relevant sites: Links to relevant sites on the Internet can be provided in a WBT. This enables the useful “reference feature” of the WBT medium.
• Global accessibility: A WBT is cost-effective when the learners are scattered all over the globe.

• Bandwidth limitations: Due to bandwidth limitations, elaborate graphics, audio, video, and animation should be avoided.
• Browser limitations: Many Internet browsers do not support certain sites.