News: Performance Management
Rise in popularity of e-learning predicted
11 April 2008
A new survey has predicted a rise in the popularity of e-learning in organisations in the next three years.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) learning and development conducted a study that found that e-learning would account for up to half of a firm's training within three years, yet only seven per cent of respondents said online learning was one of their top three most effective training practices.
Martyn Sloman, learning and development adviser at the CIPD, said: "We must work harder to integrate e-learning into broader learning and performance support activities. E-learning is about learning, not technology."
Almost all of the firms polled (98 per cent) said they agreed that e-learning was more effective when combined with other forms of learning and performance support activities.
The CIPD is the professional body for those involved in the management and development of people and has 130,000 individual members. 
