Email the Webmaster for details. The inability of business to keep employees' skills up to speed has driven the online educational market. John Chambers, the president and CEO of Cisco Systems Inc., was reported in Online News in November as saying that, electronic learning will become so important in corporations that it will actually surpass electronic commerce as a priority. Electronic learning is too important, the payback too large, for corporations to ignore it. The survey concluded that over 50 per cent had ranked distance learning as the key business priority this year.
Online training costs about half that amount.
More importantly, as she points out, training via the Web provides a global distribution. Vicket trains 1,300 employees at 110 sites nationwide. Training employees through e-learning has inspired developers to create programs to act as front ends for business training courses. Jeff Walsh reported in InfoWorld Electric in May that Macromedia had launched its latest generation of Pathware4. The program helps companies like Compaq, MCI, Boeing and US West train employees more efficiently using the Internet.