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e-learning
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Instructor-Led Training
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Availability
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Year-round access.
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One-time class.
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24 hours a day, 7 days a
week.
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Must be scheduled.
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Convenient for student.
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Scheduling conflicts and
inconvenience.
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Cost
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Inexpensive.
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Expensive.
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No travel expenses.
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Travel expenses,
including airfare, meals, lodging, parking, and mileage.
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Time savings for student.
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Lost time away from
office.
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Effectiveness
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Ideally paced; students
can take courses at own speed.
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Student pushed through
course in specific timeframe. Not
self-paced.
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Focus on and learn what
is important to student and skip unnecessary information.
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All students taught all
information and at same level as rest of class.
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Consistent from student
to student.
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Different trainers have
different approaches and varying quality.
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Long-term retention
enhanced by taking courses in 20-30 minute segments over a number of days.
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Day- and week-long
training not easily retained.
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Students have access to
courses anytime for a refresher.
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Student must review
workbook, if available.
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Can be used as a
complement to ILT (as a prerequisite or in follow-up workshops).
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N/A
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Administration
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Can track progress,
launch courses, and measure learning effectiveness.
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Must be done manually.
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Can be made easily
available on the students workstation (with Internet access) or through
Internet access at home.
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Must be done manually.
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