Some courses provide chat groups for live discussions between students and instructors. But because it is no longer necessary to teach courses, one instructor can manage many more students. Courses developed for one department can be often used by other departments, dramatically reducing costs. Infrastructure costs can be reduced because not as many classrooms are needed. Since computers and computer networks are increasingly available, it is very cost effective to transfer training to online programs.
Employees can take courses when they are ready rather than when the courses are available.
This will accelerate the training process and reduce the costs associated with inadequately trained professions. It is much more cost effective to have all necessary training immediately available when needed than to wait for a backlog of people needing training to justify putting together a course. We developed 10 e-learning courses for the Salt Lake City Police Department this last year. The goal was to automate many of the tasks associated with training and make learning a self-directed and individualized for each officer. The program was designed to both increase learning and produce substantial savings for the department.