Training in key business and professional skills in today’s competitive environment cannot be ignored if you want your employees to develop and help drive the growth of your company.

With the advent of computers in every organization, E learning will form an important part of how we learn key business skills in the workplace. In fact, the analyst house, IDC, predicts that by the end of 2005 business skills training delivered through e-learning will account for 26% of all training provided.

Most of today’s quality E learning solutions offer the opportunity for ‘learning by doing’, a concept which should form a key part of all training in soft skills, whether in the classroom or online. It has been widely researched and is well known that interaction is an important element to keeping a learner engaged in training.

One form of interaction is simulation - controlled and ‘safe’ learning environments where a learner can interact with real-world events, or ‘learn by doing’. As learners progress through a course, they are presented with scenarios and asked to choose the response they would give. Upon answering these recorded simulations, the ‘intelligent’ e-learning course shows them what the real-life outcome would be. Immediate feedback in simulations motivates the learner and allows them to enhance competency and, in turn, transfer the skills taught.

CBT (Computer Based Training) modules are a graphic presentation of training in various areas like soft skills training, product training, technical training, student education, etc.

WBT’s are Training modules based on the Web. They usually have animation, sound tracks and voice-overs to make the training messages simpler to understand and at the same time more interesting.

Testing Modules help keep track of student progress and form an integral part of education systems.

E Learning systems use either or all the above technologies and harness their full potentials to deliver cost-effective and interesting training systems.