Over half of learning and development managers offer e-learning as part of their training provision, yet they continue to have doubts about its effectiveness, according to the CIPD’s annual learning and development survey.

It seems learners think in a similar way.  While 60 per cent of employees are able to access e-learning, it is taken up by only half of them and only 30 per cent complete courses.  This may be because, according to 92 per cent of organisations,  successful e-learning requires the adoption of a new attitude on the part of the learner.

The majority of organisations (95 per cent) believe e-learning is more effective when combined with other forms of learning.

Martyn Sloman, learning and development adviser, CIPD, says: "Simply saying we support blended learning solutions is not enough. We must work much harder to integrate e-learning into broader learning and performance support activities. The best organisations are doing this, but the worst are simply making e-learning available to the individual on their PC and hoping that something will happen as a result."

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