Courses Content coverage Course duration ranges from 30 minutes to 20-plus hours. Library sizes range from 17 to 1000-plus courses. Curricula range from 2 to 100- plus titles. Some vendors chunk content into modules, addressing fundamental, intermediate, and advanced skills separately, while others have complete coverage of a topic within one course. For IT and desktop software training, some courses merely show sample screens, while others run the actual application with the training as a seamless component.
Some vendors offer courses in multiple languages.
Mentors and tutors provide educational assistance to learners. Mentor group support Discussion boards. Mentors respond to learner content questions via public discussion boards. Mentor-facilitated chat rooms run on an ongoing or periodic basis. Things to consider Mentor qualifications.