E-learning Training and Barriers
Quinesha Bevels
BUS375
Marissa Trejo
October 13, 2015

E-learning Training
In this week’s assignment we were asked to examine eLearning and the barriers that come with it. In this assignment I will describe e-learning as a training method, describe the potential barriers of e-learning readiness, provide some examples of what a trainer can do to prepare learners for e-learning and provide some personal e-learning readiness experience from my time at Ashford University.
How many times have we all heard that we live in the age of technology? More often than most I’m sure. Now a days through the use of technology we are able to purchase, educate, communicate and much more from the palm of our hands through the use of technology. It is now becoming the preferred method to do everything. Why wouldn’t a business want to use it for training employees? Today’s businesses experience insufficient training and lack of knowledge sharing that prevents them from achieving their highest potential. The traditional training methods don’t cut it anymore. E-Learning enables learning to be delivered interactively via computer and internet.
Companies are opting for e-learning over more traditional learning due to the increasing mobility of the workforce, the need to save on training cost, greater acceptance of web based training and better interoperability of system (Moran, 2011). E-learning allows businesses to have the right context at the right time and that is something that businesses are looking for right now.
Although there are several perks to e-learning it is also important to make sure that everyone involved is prepared and ready for e-learning. It is can be an enormous undertaking and require significantly more preparation due to its increased scope, higher interdependence and visibility. One way to make sure that an organization is