Hi everyone, 

 Could I ask  for your views on  online/blended training, especially basic mandatory training , introductory training etc. 

Have you examples of where it is a sucess, and examples of where it just did not work? I have heard that some large firms provide online training to subcontractors, does anyone have examples of this?

Regards

Seamus

Blended Learning is one of those buzzwords that have become fashionable in certain circles (like mindfulness). It can mean variety of things, but it usually refers to training models where the learners are presented with both face to face traditional type training and some form of e-learning with both systems complementing each other. Within blended learning there are whole variety of approaches from ones where the trainer takes the lead and just drops the bit of e-learning in when they want to, to the very student oriented approaches where the e-learning is used and controlled by the student and the trainer acts more like mentor helping the student through the bits they don’t understand and where they need more support. I haven’t checked the literature about which approach is best and I would suspect that it depends on what you are trying to teach to whom over what time period.