The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 clearly illustrates how people could benefit from e-learning. Undoubtedly, e-learning has a lot of advantages. For example, it allows a more flexible schedule, minimizes the costs related to time spent on traveling from work to a learning center, and gives access to an unlimited number of courses all over the world. E-learning is an excellent opportunity for employees to develop their skills and deepen their knowledge. Nonetheless, e-learning has several significant disadvantages. The pandemic shows that both students and employees quickly lose their motivation to study and work in the online format. Talking about education, teachers should put additional efforts into keeping their students active during the classes and not let them lose interest in a subject (Nehme, 2010). Employees are the same students, and for some of them, such a format might not be effective. Besides, it all depends on whether an employee has scheduled classes with a professor in Zoom, for example, or watches lectures and prepares assignments on such e-learning platforms as Coursera. Besides, the effectiveness of online classes greatly depends on the specificity of the work. Without a doubt, there are some professions, such as health workers, for which e-learning is barely applicable. To conclude, e-learning has its pros and cons. From one point of view, offline classes help to build a team and unite employees. From another point of view, online courses economize the time of workers who have to attend them. Still, reality dictates its own rules. These rules imply that for all of us, it is safer to prefer e-learning over traditional one. I believe that e-learning will become a choice of the majority of employers because of the convenience of this format.
Reference
Nehme, M. (2010). E-learning and students’ motivation. Legal Education Review, 20(1), 223-239.