The last decade has seen a very significant shift from learning solutions focused primarily in the classroom to learning solutions that incorporate web and multimedia components. eLearning itself has transformed radically as web based technologies have advanced and become more accessible. Industry standards such as SCORM compliance and shared understanding of eLearning solution types have served as a foundation for best practices and subsequent innovations.

SweetRush is constantly looking at best practices in its learning solutions and we are excited by all that eLearning has to offer in addressing business challenges. While we know that eLearning is not right for all situations, we have become experts at knowing how and when it is best integrated.

There are many reasons why we might include eLearning as a part or all of a training solution for your learning participants:

• Return on Investment.
• SweetRush understands that producing learning content is time consuming whether it's online or not. With eLearning, each time the course is accessed your return on investment improves because you are dividing the fixed production costs by number of uses. You also have savings through decreasing travel, location, facilitation and accommodation costs, reducing printing and distribution costs for materials and minimizing time off the job.
• Decreased material costs.
• By creating the environment online and letting the learner practice, you never have to worry about the costs associated with set up, use, and clean up. SweetRush designs and develops with sustainability and business process improvement in mind.
• Increased productivity.
• Because eLearning is not bound by geography or time, you can control training's impact on production by training people during down times.In addition, with the current economy, you're asking people to do more with less. SweetRush custom eLearning courses are a great way to give them the tools and skills needed to enhance their performance.
• Standardization.
• You may have great facilitators, but that's no guarantee that the courses are presented the same across sessions. SweetRush allows you to create a standardized process and consistency in the delivery of content.It also compresses delivery time.
• Personalized learning.
• SweetRush's custom eLearning courses allows us the opportunity to infuse your organization's culture, branding and differentiators into every component.
• Real-time access.
• Live learning events require that those who participate align their schedules to the training calendar.eLearning eliminates this because the course can be accessed anytime, anywhere.
• Freedom to fail.
• SweetRush's custom eLearning courses allows learners to learn and practice in a safe and fun environment. Let's face it, real learning requires some failure. But no one likes to fail in a classroom full of other people. eLearning lets one fail without fear.This encourages exploration and testing of ideas. Worst case, a learner can always start over.Something they can't always do in classroom setting.
• Improved retention.
• The combination of multimedia and instructional design can produce a very rich learning experience that is repeatable. SweetRush's instructional strategy produces eLearning courses that teach concepts through vivid images with engaging narration, relevant stories, and scenarios which stress self-directed choices and immediate feedback.
• Ongoing access to resources.
• If you take a class in the real world and need a refresher, you better hope that you took good notes. Otherwise, you're out of luck. That's not the case with eLearning. Ideally, you continue to have access to the online content and resources to brush up on what you learned.
• Knowledge management.
• eLearning includes all sorts of online technologies. If you incorporate some of the tools that allow collaboration and conversation, you can capture organizational knowledge and make it available for future learners.
• Encourage sharing.
• The foundation of a learning community is built on sharing what you know with others. Depending on how the course is structured, you can encourage sharing of resources and insight gained from the course.
• Attracting and training Millennials.
• The baby boomers are exiting and the Millennials are coming; some statistics say 63% of the work force by 2014 will be Millennials. eLearning appeals to this new workforce and you don't want to be behind this critical demographic shift.
• Employer of choice.
• People want opportunities to grow and you can do this by offering a catalog of eLearning courses. This allows them to explore other opportunities in the organization.During downtime, it would be great to spend fifteen minutes learning to better manage meetings or improve working with peers. Offering these opportunities to learn makes you a place people want to stay.

Because we know that there is a wide variety of needs when it comes to eLearning we maintain best practices not only in the straightforward lower levels of interactive eLearning, but in simulations, learning games and the use of multimedia. Knowing the appropriate complexity in course design is a core competency in establishing the right solution for the learning objectives.

Our expertise is in looking at these and other aspects of your business and training needs and shaping a solution that may include eLearning. We do this every day, and or clients depend on us to bring this up to date understanding of industry best practices into the solutions we craft with them.