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Systems Group

  University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign

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The Future of e-Learning
 E-learning is here to stay as the fast changing pace of technology, the shortening product development cycles, lack of skilled personnel, competitive global economy, the shift from the industrial to the knowledge era, the migration towards a value chain integration and the extended enterprise (Mcrea, Gay & Bacon, 2000), fuel its strategic importance and realization. This study revealed that indeed e-learning could become the major form of training and development in organizations as technologies will improve to create a fully interactive and humanized learning environment.

 

A Study of e-Learning Practices in Selected Fortune 100 Companies
Recent advancements in technology and the transformation of traditional corporations have sparked the integration of technology and learning in the private sector. This survey-based study examines why seven Fortune 100 companies have introduced e-Learning to their employees and the issues and barriers that resulted.

 

A Summary on the Future of e-Learning: A Corporate and an Academic Perspective
This Microsoft Word Document is a summary of the above paper that was presented by Consuelo Waight at the Academy of Human Resource Development Conference, February 28 - March 4 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 

e-Learning-A Review of Literature
 This comprehensive review of e-Learning literature captures the complexity of e-Learning, including, but not limited to a summary on the following topics: defining e-Learning, Strategic Importance of e-Learning, Organizational Culture and e-Learning, Cost Effectiveness of e-Learning. Global Issues in e-Learning.

 

The Relationship Between Distance Coaching and The Transfer of Training
This paper examined the relationship between distance coaching, a post-training strategy, and the transfer of training. More specifically, the paper studied the relationship between 1) distance coaching activities and transfer of training, 2) trainees' perceptions on coaching and transfer of training, and 3) distance coaching activities and trainees' perceptions on coaching.

 

Cost Efficiency of Online Instruction in a Research One University:  A Case Study of a Department's Efforts

 

e-Learning Technology Review
 Due to the massive growth in e-Learning, keeping track of e-Learning technology is an extremely difficult task. Vendors are consolidating and companies are changing their names. Product names are being changed and the products themselves are changing rapidly also. E-Learning terms have not yet become consistent among vendors. "& many companies claimed to be a learning management system (LMS), but each had a different concept about the definition of an LMS." (Schelin, e-Learning, December 14, 2000) This e-Learning Technology Review is an attempt to clear up some of the confusion. It is a compilation of features available in similar products.