Meeting the Training Needs of SMEs: Is e-Learning a Solution?

Autor/inn/en	Roy, Andrée; Raymond, Louis
Titel	Meeting the Training Needs of SMEs: Is e-Learning a Solution?
Quelle	In: Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 6 (2008) 2, S.89-98 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1479-4403
Schlagwörter	Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; Electronic Learning; Small Businesses; Web Based Instruction; Case Studies; Observation; Program Effectiveness; Foreign Countries; Workplace Learning; Qualitative Research; Semi Structured Interviews; Knowledge Level; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterrichtsmedien; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Kleingewerbe; Web Based Training; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Beobachtung; Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Wissensbasis; Kanada
Abstract	Training is one of the basic means of human resources development in business organizations, aiming to motivate employees, to develop their potential and to help them perform better. The end of the 20th century has seen the advent of globalisation and the diffusion of new information and communication technologies. Businesses have to change and adapt to the requirements of the new knowledge-based and skill-based economy. Facing pressures from an increasingly competitive business environment, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are called upon to implement strategies that are enabled and supported by information technologies and e-business applications in order to compete with others' organizations. One of these applications is e-Learning, whose aim is to enable the continuous assimilation of knowledge and skills by managers and employees, and thus support organisational training and development efforts through the use of the Internet and Web technologies. Little is known however as to the level of awareness of e-Learning in SMEs and as to the actual role played by e-Learning with regard to these firms' training needs. A multiple case study of sixteen SMEs in the Atlantic region of Canada, including twelve that use e-Learning with varying degrees of intensity, was designed to explore this question. We observed the firms' training process, identifying to what extent the SMEs know and use e-Learning, and to what extent e-Learning meets their training needs. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01