The era of projectors and desktop PCs as tools for interactive digital training in companies seems to be coming to an end. Companies start to prefer tablets. These are finding of the Digital Learning for Business report by ILX Group, the world's leading provider of educational software solutions, whose objective was to provide a clear picture of the educational needs of current businesses and the ways of their implementation.
100 HR decision-makers from large organizations in the UK's financial services industry, manufacturing, retail, transport services, public sector and other commercial sectors participated in the study. It turned out that 41% of these organizations were considering training their employees using tablets in 2012. Other findigns inlude the following trends.
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The main objective of corporate training is improving business potential and employee morale. Most trainings focus on developing leadership and managerial skills.
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E-learning will be further developed as a fun, effective and cost-effective method of education. Traditional classroom training is on decline.
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Notebooks and tablets are becoming main mediums for corporate education at the expense of desktop computers, interconnected TVs and gaming consoles.
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Major growth is expected in the area of blended learning - integrating classroom training with digital tools.
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