The Rational Behind Establishing Goals of E Learning

Trainers, educators, instructors, and learners everywhere are all raving about the efficacy, convenience and speed with which they are able to learn through the process of e learning.  Many have attested that courses have been significantly shortened and made even easier to complete, trainers giving training seminars have reported dramatic increases in successfully completed sessions, instructors are reporting better evaluations, and people in general are quite pleased with the outcome of the e learning solutions they have committed to, saying the entire process was by far better than going to a classroom like environment to learn what they needed to learn.  While these claims in no way debases the classroom environment nor does it promote e learning over accredited and legitimate school courses, the results do tend to speak well about the efficacy of e learning.  Adult courses catering to those who have not completed their degree courses are looking more and more into utilizing e learning to compliment their curriculum, primarily since most adults prefer a measure of privacy and would rather forego the typical exposure to a classroom environment offered by some institutions catering to adult learning.  While all of these may be well and good for all, e learning in itself is quite the information overload, especially if it is not tailored to whatever specific knowledge or skill is needed by the one learning.  The entire learning process can go any which way if it is not properly guided by particulars made to define the parameters of the entire learning exercise.  The entire e learning process should first be customized to whatever specifics and requirements are needed to maximize the entire learning experience, instead of bombarding the learner with knowledge which may not even prove to be useful to them, or even relevant to their needs.



Just like traditional practices in the academe, e learning should also be guided by a set criterion, and more importantly, there should be specific behavioral objectives guiding the entire planning of the coverage of the e learning exercise.  This guide will then allow the trainer to predict a foreseeable outcome of the training exercise and therefore establish baseline expectations to determine if the direction the e learning module was pointed at was the right one, and if it was maximized, or if it could have been planned better.

By doing a projection of expected outcome of the e learning exercise, a point of comparison can be made where the actual results can later be measured against, and from there determine if indeed the e learning exercise was tailored to allow the learners to acquire the skills and knowledge for a set goal.  The behavioral objectives help to establish certain observable traits in the learner that is expected to help them in achieving the projected goals in their work.  This is done by fostering the development of traits to improve their ability to do their daily tasks, curb habits that are counter-productive, and establish an outlook that is not only beneficial to them at the work place, but also in their lives in general.

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