eLearning - Virtual Independent Learning

Digital memory training, self-motivation, goal achievement, anti-stress concept, mindfulness, advanced online formatio, further education

Simone Janson, Simone Janson

• Publisher: Best of HR – Berufebilder.de®
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9783965962217
• Edition: 5
• Topic: Economia
• Subtopic: Teoria economica

With the 5th revised and improved edition, published by a state funded publisher involved in EU programs and a partner of the Federal Ministry of Education, you receive the concentrated expertise of renowned authors (overview in the book preview) and extensive add-ons as well as individual consulting. At the same time, you do good and support sustainable projects. Because if you want to learn effectively and motivated online, you should know how our brain works in combination with digital tools and what to pay attention to when learning virtually. Because digital learning, also called Blended Learning, requires a special degree of personal responsibility. It means, for example, organising oneself completely independently. This book therefore shows how we can use digital tools in a targeted manner to absorb the necessary information efficiently and thus increase knowledge in the long term. For its concept "Information as Desired, " the publisher was not only involved in an EU-funded program but also received the Global Business Award as Publisher of the Year. Therefore, by purchasing this book, you are also doing good: The publisher is financially and personally committed to socially relevant projects such as tree planting actions, scholarship foundations, sustainable housing, and many other innovative ideas. The goal of providing you with the best possible content on topics such as career, finance, management, recruiting, or psychology goes far beyond the static nature of traditional books: The interactive book not only provides you with expert knowledge but also allows you to ask individual questions and receive personal advice. In addition, each book contains detailed explanations and application examples to help you make the most of the free consulting services available to book buyers. You can also download e-courses, work with workbooks, or engage with an active community. This way, you receive valuable resources that increase your knowledge, stimulate creativity, make your personal and professional goals achievable, and make successes tangible. And more: We want to give you the opportunity to make your journey to personal growth and success even more unforgettable. Because we know that true change does not only take place in the mind but above all through personal experience and application. That is why we have created special success experiences to complement each book. Expertise and technical innovation go hand in hand, as we take the responsibility of delivering well-founded and well-researched content and the trust you place in us very seriously. Therefore, all texts are written by experts in their field. We only use AI-supported data analysis to better find information that supports your search for knowledge. Publisher and editor Simone Janson is also a bestselling author and one of the 10 most important German bloggers according to the Blogger Relevance Index. She has also been a columnist and author for renowned media such as WELT, Wirtschaftswoche, or ZEIT - more about her can be found on Wikipedia.

How a further education by eLearning really is: A report
// By Fabian Linden

Career opportunities through further education, lifelong learning, the necessary qualification due to digitization: these are all buzzwords that we currently encounter everywhere on the relevant portals. But how are the modern possibilities with eLearning and Co. in the first place built and how do they work in practice?

How does eLearning work in practice?

There are plenty of reasons for continuing education today. The world of work is in a state of great change, and those who want to keep up to date must learn at various points in their personal careers.

In the meantime, the decentralized model of distance learning has become more flexible and diverse thanks to the digital possibilities. There are suitable offers for almost every subject area: many of them can also be completed with a certificate.

Various training scenarios

Basically, there are two different situations in which to undertake a training course: in their own interest or in operational necessity.

Continuing education for your own sake

Those who want to qualify better in their own interest, usually wants to fill completely individual knowledge and skills gaps, to advance his career, facilitate a return or even dare a complete new start.

Extra-occupationally, this can become a challenge, both in terms of time and financially, when the costs have to be borne entirely by oneself. At least that can be the Expenditure tax claim, Here eLearning offers are beneficial for two reasons:

• In concepts based on self-learning time can be freely divided.
• Due to the large range and high numbers of participants, theCourses are often offered very cheap.

Career reorientation

Those who reorientate their career or use the gap between two career centers may, under certain circumstances, benefit from a training voucher from the Employment Agency and also take advantage of more extensive further education measures. Here is worked together with different educational institutions.

1. A qualification measure is often also ordered “from above”. In many companies it is an operational necessity to train the staff (regularly). Last but not least, digitization is causing many changes and new processes, for example in the area of ​​administration. Here the companies often rely on tailor-made further training offers, either as classic in-house training or eLearning as a more flexible option, The latter are often the better choice
2. Each employee can learn at their own pace and time. For example, during a training, the entire team does not fail at once.
3. Many providers adapt the training individually and precisely to the particularities and wishes of the individual companies.

Such training may be necessary to continue to fill his position or to qualify for new assignments.

Hands on: eLearning in detail

So what does the whole thing look like in practice? Which didactic refinements does multimedia learning offer and how effective is that?

Both in a further training measure for my own motivation, as well as in a company training, I have so far gained experience with eLearning. The former was a more extensive qualification over several weeks to create important foundations for a professional reorientation. The operational measure included a compact training in dealing with industry-specific software.

The importance of infrastructure

With the memory of some past bumpy Skype conferences, I was especially looking forward to the technical implementation of the extensive measure. Particularly in the case of concepts that include video tutorials with live conferences as attendanceCourses, a secure and trouble-free transmission must be guaranteed.

Here it was possible to work on computers in the training center of the provider or, if necessary, to learn with a suitably equipped laptop from home. With a few exceptions and the usual "start-up difficulties" that worked smoothly.

In fact, professional providers simply can not afford poor infrastructure and transmission quality. Otherwise, they run the risk that public agencies will no longer be co-operating and state-subsidized education vouchers will be awarded to other institutes.

In the case of technical problems, there was always an IT specialist available at short notice who could help. In addition, there are usually many options for individual adjustments or communication:

• Both the lecturer and other comrades are usually seen on a small video window.
• For individual persons, the volume can usually be adjusted individually.
• Via headset and webcam a lesson in the "virtual classroom" is possible.
• In addition, you can talk about individual and group chats.
• Tasks can be edited alone or together and exchanged via a drive.

Some subscribers who worked from home occasionally showed a slightly weak Internet transmission bandwidth as a problem. There were noticeably more problems here.

The software training consisted of individual video tutorials of the provider. The usual IT infrastructure in the company was sufficient.

The importance of didactic preparation

During the extensive training over several weeks, the contents were prepared in multimedia format. Responsible for this were in each case the individual lecturers, who could use the most different formats:

• Direct explanation of training content in the group
• Possibility to ask individual questions (by chat or in conversation)
• Working on the screen with (interactive) documents or special software
• Individual and group tasks (project work) to practice and try out what you have learned
• Suggestions for self-research and deepening of learning content
• Practical examples, often with references to individual experiences

Sometimes lively discussions arose, often there were useful questions, sometimes annoying participants. Overall, the mood was similarly dynamic, as in a real classroom.

Due to the diverse media formats, were there the different types of learning addressed, Overall, the pace was moderate and adapted to the broad average. If you wanted to know more, you got suggestions and tips to get more content for yourself. In addition, one could let off steam individually during the project work.

In the tutorials to the software self-learning was announced. Given the manageable complexity of such learning content, however, this format is absolutely sufficient. The videos could each be called and learned independently. In the specific case, there was no way to ask about a chat queries, however, was a forum available, which could provide answers in a timely manner.

Another didactic opportunity for eLearning the gamification principleHowever, this means a greater effort in creating the learning content. Unfortunately, I have not had any experience with it.

The importance of the lecturers

The lecturers play a big part in how you perceive the learning offer yourself. Everyone has their own teaching style, not everyone is equally aware of that.

At my first instructor in the class, a buddy type, all the participants came along well and overall the mood was good. Many details were explained in detail and we were able to repeat what we had learned.

For organizational reasons, halfway through we got a new lecturer, who put a much stronger focus on their own learning content. This was a problem for some participants due to the abrupt change. However, after a brief uproar ev...

Table of contents

• Imprint
• Introduction: How this book supports you
• 5 Current Trends in Distance Learning: The Future of eLearning // By Markus Jung
• BIO | Careerfoundry: eLearning for the career and learning model of the future? // By Rosie Allabarton
• Lifelong learning for the job market: purposefulness and motivation // By Hanna Hardeland
• Blended Learning Education and Digitalization: 4 Tips for Changing the Learning Culture // By Dr. Christoph Kahlenberg
• Virtual digital learning: 7 tips for further training in your free time // By Vanessa Schäfer
• Lifelong Learning: Away with the old habits! // By Simone Janson
• How a further education by eLearning really is: A report // By Fabian Linden
• Success through Reading Focus and Concentration: 7 Tips from Obama to Gates // By Susanne Heinz
• E-learning to familiarize new employees: This brings online training for managers and teams // By Oliver Koch
• eLearning and virtual further education: 5 tips for digital learning of the future // By Simone Janson
• Closing Remarks
• Authors Overview
• About the publisher Best of HR - Berufebilder.de®
• Notes on translation