WBT and CBT Services

Building the Learning Around the Learner

At Major Media Learning Resources, our guiding philosophy and operating strategy are focused on building the learning around the learner. That’s true for every training project — whether whether it’s delivered through CD-ROM, intranet,  extranet, the worldwide web, traditional classroom instruction or a hybrid delivery method.
Whatever the delivery technology, our goal in developing interactive multimedia courseware remains the same: to create a richly compelling learning context in which learners are challenged and motivated not just to learn new information … but to modify the old attitudes, build the new skills and apply the critical thinking needed to master it.

Scores of real-world studies (and meta studies) have demonstrated that  technology-based training  provides an unbeatable return on investment for a wide range of training applications.   In many cases, interactive multimedia is the best answer to the corporate call for faster, cheaper and better training … offering such benefits as:

Improved Performance

  • 100% consistent training available on demand to as few or as many learners as needed.
  • Learning gains up to 56% greater than classroom instruction
  • Content retention 25-50% higher

Time and Cost Savings

  • 100-150% return on investment within one to two years.
  •  40-60% reduction in training time
  • 40-60% reduction in wage, benefit and opportunity costs for time spent in training.
  • Reduction or elimination of trainer and trainee travel expenses.

COMPUTER-BASED TRAINING BENEFITS

CBT has many positive features and effects, many of which are particularly important to small and mid-sized companies.

CBT is cost effective:

  • Because CBT may enable you to reduce or eliminate travel for trainees, your total training costs can also be lessened.

 

CBT works with an adult population:

  • The trainee feels in control.
  • The computer is non-judgmental and non-threatening. It provides a privacy factor that reduces learners’ embarrassment about taking “remedial” classes or making mistakes while answering questions in the training materials.
  • The computer actively engages the trainee in the training process, providing increased trainee satisfaction.

 

CBT is self-paced, flexible, and individualized:

  • Trainees work at their own pace.
  • CBT can sequence training to match the trainee’s needs. The computer can always match the trainee’s schedule. CBT can reach trainees outside the traditional classroom, providing instruction on the job or at home.
  • CBT provides immediate feedback to trainees on their progress. CBT does not have to be delivered to all employees at the same time, thus allowing the company to maintain coverage of critical positions.

CBT is tireless:

  • It never needs a break.
  • It is always there.
  • It can train greater numbers of students in a given time frame compared to other methods.
  • It meets the need for round-the-clock (continuous) training.

CBT gives trainers increased control over training activities:

  • It provides management systems for tracking trainees’ progress and location.
  • It provides on-line testing to match a trainee with needed training. It provides consistency of training in terms of quality and information presented.
  • It provides standardization of training when training occurs in several work locations simultaneously.

CBT can reduce resource requirements:

  • You can have a higher trainee-to-trainer ratio, where the instructor serves as facilitator, assisting trainees as needed.
  • There is less need for a centralized training facility. Facilitators can serve more than one company with a CBT program, lessening the investment each company would have to make.

CBT can improve job performance:

  • It trains people in specific skills for specific performance.
  • It trains people in general skills that broadly affect general performance.
  • It provides increased access to information tools for decision making.

CBT can be a change agent:

  • CBT may be the catalyst for a paradigm shift to new training approaches within an organization. Companies might begin to look beyond traditional classroom instruction to meet their training needs.
  • CBT can provide computer literacy skills to employees, resulting in improved personal and organizational productivity.

Computer-based training is not, however, the answer to every training need. It is more appropriate — effective and cost efficient — in some situations than others. The material in this guide will help you determine when it can effectively meet your training needs.