How to design an e-learning system based on the concept of learning by doing — Part #1

Designing World-Class E-Learning

How IBM, GE, Harvard Business School & Columbia University Are

Beyond technology: how to create e-learning that meshes with the way people really learn.

“E-Learning is cheaper, not because it allows you to put your training manual on a Web page, but because it allows many students to experience training that was built once and then continually delivered.”

The Value of E-Learning

E-learning can be effective, economical and convenient, in that it permits learning any time. It is thrifty, because once you build a training program, you can deliver it continually to any number of learners over a long time. However, effective e-learning is more than just throwing your training manual up on a Web site. To make e-learning work, incorporate natural learning principles based on how things are actually done.

Learning by doing is critical; that’s how humans learn and that’s how human memory processes work. People learn by doing and then by finding out if what they just did is wrong or right. That’s…