E-learning (Training And Development)

The delivery of a learning, training or education program by electronic means. E-learning involves the use of a computer or electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) in some way to provide training, educational or learning material. (Derek Stockley 2003)

Whiteboards / Discussion Forum: Post ideas on shared space, not as a flipchart, it is interactive and collaborative e.g. capture expectations at the beginning of the class, and to see if they are met at the end. And to capture the participant's ideas throughout.

Break Out Groups means to break class to small group to explore a case study to complete different goals and to make each group to share a different type of software application. It is small enough to promote everyone's involvement, large and diverse enough to yield different perspective to an activity. It should be structured, brief, provide focus exercise or scenario and leader should be assigned for each group to ensure that everyone participates, serves as spokesperson during de-brief.

Live Chat / Chatroom: to provide feedback on the level of difficulty for the audience, and can be used as brainstorming tool and to provide pre written instructions you want to use.

The Visionary Leader moves people towards a shared vision, telling them where to go but not how to get there - thus motivating them to struggle forwards. They openly share information, hence giving knowledge power to others.

Visionary Leader characteristics are:
- Inspires.
- Believes in own vision.
- Empathetic.
- Explains how and why people's efforts contribute to the 'dream'.

The Coaching Leader connects wants to organizational goals, holding long conversations that reach beyond the workplace, helping people find strengths and weaknesses and tying these to career aspirations and actions. They are good at delegating challenging assignments, demonstrating faith that demands justification and which leads to high levels of loyalty.

Coaching Leader characteristics are:
- Listens. Helps people identifying their own strengths and weaknesses.
- Counselor.
- Encourages.
- Delegates.

One issue or problem faced by learning online is that the participants will feel distant and isolated from each other. Therefore, to make the participants to feel included and valued,firstly, use the induction period to get them used to not only working and talking in the online environment, but also engaging online (collaboration, tests, discussions, etc).

Hence, Live Chat, Word Search and Poll are able to induce the feeling but not Break Out Groups.