Adopting e-Learning to Combat Coronavirus Shutdown

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, housebound and social distancing measures have forced almost every organization around the world to shift their training online. With the increasing spread of coronavirus outbreak, e-Learning and virtual technology have become the need of the hour. The considerable shift to adapt online training solutions is forcing organizations to identify ways to engage the remote workforce, without compromising with their health and wellbeing.
While organizations are considering work from home as the new normal, they are seeking ways to deliver online learning solutions to cater to the pertinent needs of all. Let us see how e-Learning plays a vital role when it comes to managing the employees working remotely:

• Personalized learning

While maintaining social distancing during this global health crisis, keeping your remote employees engaged and connected becomes essential. With the evolution of Learning Experience Platforms, corporate leaders can quickly provide curated learning content from credible sources like OpenSesame, YouTube, etc. Consequently, experience-driven learning aligned and personalized to job roles, KPIs, skills, and learning habits, enable employees to learn more and retain for long.

• Shifting from ILT to VLT

This unplanned downtime has compelled organizations to shift from Instructor-led Training (ILT) to Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT) approach. Two major challenges that organizations are facing during the novel Coronavirus outbreak is how to keep their employees engaged and connected. So, corporate leaders can virtually communicate and train their team members by adopting the e-Learning approach. They can effectively train remote employees about stress management skills, team building, and other topics. Ultimately, distant employees can feel more connected with their peers as well as the organization.

• Game-based Learning

Organizations are coming up with the idea of incorporating games with training courses, which can be delivered online. The reward mechanism, leaderboards, and levels within an e-Learning game keep up the employee morale, drive peer-to-peer collaboration, and hence overall productivity, engagement, and retention.

• Online assessments & feedback

Corporates are also providing online assessments to identify the skills-gaps of remote employees during the pandemic. Consequently, they can align relevant training to cater to the pertinent training requirements so that employees stay productive and upskilled when they return to the workplace. With immediate feedback received from the managers, employees can work on their weak areas and upgrade their skills, while leveraging a continuous learning culture.

• Content localization

Using robust digital learning tools, organizations are adopting ways to localize online training content for their remote employees. This boosts the overall engagement and retention levels of the workforce with varied cultural backgrounds and experiences. Content localization helps to create and repurpose training content into learners’ native languages, thus mitigating overall cost and effort.
As the Coronavirus news unfold each day, organizations from every vertical are adopting eLearning solutions to ensure their employee wellbeing, while keeping them engaged, motivated, and connected.