Establish your requirements before you start browsing
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of our global society, none more so than the education system. While many people are still stuck at home and unable return to their jobs as social distancing standards remain in place, many are looking to add skills and competencies to their resumes to make resume upgrades or career moves that will ensure that they have secure jobs as the coronavirus continues or to prepare for the next crisis emerges.
Likewise corporations can train their employees on new skills or by refreshing established ones in order to hit the ground running when business as usual resumes.
The biggest problem with choosing an e-learning platform to utilize is not understanding what a good one looks like. Since everything is done online, the opportunity to drive to the shopping mall and test out the goods simply does not exist.
With so many competitors in a crowded industry, making a bad choice on your elearning platform won’t just cost you time and money, it can also dilute the educational value of the courses you choose to take. That can have ramifications that you are not even aware of until you start applying for jobs or taking on new endeavors only to realize you were not given the proper tools to do the work correctly.
So what criteria should you consider when looking through the myriad of options online? Here are three that are musts for your consideration before making a selection.
Establish your requirements before you start browsing
You don’t have to contort your needs to fit an offer. This is a buyer’s market and the company that wants your business needs to be flexible to your needs. Make sure you have everything you want laid out before you start soliciting free trials and sales calls . Make sure the representatives know what you need and what you’re not interested in.
How are the courses delivered?
Quality, not quantity
Some elearning platforms will try and dazzle you with how many courses they have to offer, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Plenty of elearning platforms have had the same core set of courses available since Day 1, and try to sway customers their way with that big bold number on their website. When you’re perusing their course catalog, make sure you are looking at the dates courses were added, not just the number of titles. Having four courses on website design is all well and good, but if the “newest” one is from 2012, there’s very little value. Make sure that the platform you choose has recent titles and is making consistent updates so you’re getting the newest, most relevant courses.
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Tobi Onyekweli
I’m Tobi Onyekweli, the founder of Kweli Solutions. We are an IT training firm that specializes in providing quality training and appropriate career guides in areas such as Cloud, Database, Cybersecurity, and Software Engineering. Our style and pattern can be compared to none in the industry we gladly represent. We are the leading firm in IT, and we have successfully introduced innovative ways of teaching IT courses. We will be glad to help you find your feet in your chosen career path.