Web based employee learning and development

  Assalammualaikum, today, I will explain and reflect on what I have learnt in the class of Dr. Roya about web based employee learning and development. Web based learning can be considered as an innovative approach to deliver the content for the employees.  The Web based learning and development can be used to provide learning and development for the employee to gain new knowledge.

            Moreover, the web based training should be designed effectively by using not only knowledge of traditional management skills, but also a solid understanding of the characteristic of the application. It should be designed, according to the needs of both organization and individual to achieve the goals mutually. Although the designing it requires a thoughtful analysis to maximize its potential, the involvement of the management is also essential to ensure its success. The opinion and ideas of the employee also can be used to create more effective application of web based learning and development.

Dr, Roya also stated that, web based learning can be used as a platform to deliver presentation that might be consist of text, audio and others. It allows a visit to the sites which has relevant topic about the organization and also provides real time information about what needed to be know by the employees.  The benefit of this application is enable a real time or synchronized discussion using text based technology such as chat rooms and others. It is an interactive application that allows the user to communicate and learn information that will always be updated. This helps the employee to learn something new that can be applied in their work. This application is beneficial as it can help to reduce resources and cost which is involved in the traditional training.

In addition, this application proved to be essential as it also save time, where in some situation, the employee might not be able to attend seminar or training. Therefore, this application offers multimedia information, tutorial, material to plan their own learning, or learn at their own pace. Every learner has a different style of way of learning, so this web application can be used as a platform for them to adapt to their own style. As the web can be accessed at any time, the employee will gain the ability to interact with each other or instructor at outside of the organization.  It also can be used without assistance. It can be concluded that if the organization consider the advantage and disadvantage of this system, it might help the organization as a whole.

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References:

1. Aggarwal, A., (2000), Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges, Idea Group Publishing, United States of America.
2. Harold F. O'Neil, Jr., Ray S. Perez, Web-Based Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, United States of America.