Ten Reasons Why Online Training Is Becoming the New Standard

With millions of IT professionals around the world working remotely for the foreseeable future, online training will no doubt reach even higher levels of popularity.

Technology has proliferated the corporate world over the past 20 years with corporate e-learning growing by 900% between 2001 and 2017 (Chernev, Bobby. “21 Astonishing E-Learning Statistics for 2020.” https://techjury.net/stats-about/elearning/, May 2019).

Here are the first five reasons – distilled from the techjury.net article – that demonstrate why online training is on track to become the new standard:

  1. E-learning has led to an increase in income for 42% of US organizations.
  2. E-learning increases employee retention rates by 25% to 60%.
  3. A survey of 2,500 companies found that those with “comprehensive training programs” have 218% higher revenue per employee and 24% higher profit margins.
  4. IBM saved approximately $200 million after switching to e-learning.
  5. By 2020, 98% of US corporations plan to incorporate online learning (up from 77% of corporations in 2017).

Over the years, Pink Elephant has remained at the leading edge of IT service management and has steadily led the way by transitioning many of our public IT service management certification courses to virtual and online training. We offer 21 ITSM certification courses through our IT and business portfolios that are delivered virtually by live instructors in real time. The majority of these certification courses are also offered in a self-paced and interactive online format.

Pink Elephant President David Ratcliffe has been working in the IT field since 1976 and has seen many changes since that time, including the introductions of new ITSM frameworks and quality systems. Here is David addressing why online training is becoming the new standard.

Here are five additional reasons that show the benefits of online training and why it’s become so appealing to both organizations and IT professionals:

  1. Easy and flexible scheduling: The virtual classes can be arranged when it’s most convenient to your organization – and the self-paced online training can be accessed anytime, anywhere.
  2. Aligns with today’s reality of working remotely
  3. Allows everyone to connect online at the same time through virtual classes (public or delivered specifically to your organization)
  4. High pass rates
  5. Cost effective (no travel, accommodations, or food and beverage costs)

Bonus reason #11: Our customers are already showing us that our online courses are the new standard!  Watch the video above to hear what our raving fans have to say.

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