Custom eLearning
Cut costs and increase efficiency of training on your Sterling Commerce solutions with eLearning
 Say you’re dealing with Sterling Commerce supply chain applications where solutions are deployed to hundreds or even thousands of employees in your organization. Or you need to train trading partners on new processes in B2B applications. How are you going to train all these new users? At what cost, monetarily and logistically?
The Sterling Commerce eLearning development team will customize and deliver a high-quality eLearning experience that is:
Cost effective, especially when compared to instructor-led training Rapidly deployable and customized for your specific Sterling Commerce solution(s) Consistent and trackable
Empower all of your employees/partners/suppliers/customers to get the most out of your Sterling Commerce solution.
Cost Savings
Let’s take a look at a typical training cost scenario to compare classroom with eLearning, using industry-standard metrics such as:
40 hours course development time for each classroom hour 200 hours course development time for each hour of eLearning 50% less time to complete the same training in eLearning vs classroom (a 2-day classroom class typically takes only 1-day of eLearning to cover the same material Class days consist of about 6 hours of actual instruction Loaded (salaries, benefits, overhead, downtime) costs for course developers and trainers assumed at $3,000/week Assume your organization needs to train 800 employees for 3 days of training. Further, assume only the instructor is traveling and not the students, and that each class has 12 students. That means the instructor-led course would need to be taught at least 67 times, assuming the employees are distributed at facilities in groups evenly divisible by 12.
You’ll either need multiple instructors or enjoy the luxury of a very long roll-out period. Finally, assume that for each class one person (instructor or 1 student) is traveling, and each trip costs $1,200. How do the costs of traditional training compare to eLearning in such a scenario? Table 1 shows typical costs to develop and deploy an appropriate training solution.
Table 1: Cost Comparison of Instructor-Led to Online Training
Expense |
Instructor-Led |
e-Learning |
Course Development |
$54,000
(720 hours) |
$306,000
(1800 hours)
|
Loaded Instructor Costs
(assuming 1 class/per week) |
$201,000 |
$0
|
Travel |
$80,400 |
$0 |
Student Labor Savings
(assuming $20/hour, 9 hrs/student) |
$0 |
-$144,000 |
TOTAL |
$335,400 |
$162,000 |
Of course, there are many additional cost benefits to eLearning, which can be:
Delivered modularly during slower periods, virtually eliminating productivity loss related to training Repeated or delivered to additional students without significant additional costs Modified and redeployed with minimal deployment costs
Rapid Deployment
A critical bottleneck with traditional classroom training is that the deployment of knowledge must all channel through a scarce resource: the instructor possessing that knowledge. With eLearning, it is quite feasible to train thousands of students in a single month because the deployment channels are computers and networks, not instructors and classrooms. It’s also much simpler to train new employees as they join your company.
Consistency & Tracking
If you have 10 instructors teach the same course, you’ll have 10 different approaches to delivering that same course. Different topics will receive more or less emphasis depending on the instructor. eLearning ensures a consistent training experience for all students. And because the training is delivered by computer, it’s easy for software to track student progress, test knowledge, and maintain other tracking information.
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