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Training-learning resources -- Benefits Individuals, Enterprises & Society -- "investments in skills & capabilities return higher incomes & global development" - ILO Report - March 2002
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Training learning resources for web-based or online business, professional, job & career skills programsTraining or Learning - web-based or online resources, business or professional skills?
Training and learning in today's knowledge-based economy poses new challenges to the business, public service and political authorities unlike any ever seen in times past.
Web-based, online and other electronic driven resources enable dynamic configurations, offer lower costs and promise innovative opportunities to constituents of the training and learning communities.
Workplace learning has in fact expanded rapidly, boosted by online training & learning opportunities. In technology-empowered economies, professionals and employees have access to new "soft [business-critical] skills", such as strengthening teams, personal leadership, self-determination and -initiative, and written and oral communications skills.
Today's flatter process-driven organisational structures are better learned at work, on an informal basis, than in formal educational or traditional training classroom settings.
As the International Labour Office [ILO] observes in the March 2002 edition of their "Learning and Training for Work in the Knowledge Society", report,
"Learning and training for work target primarily people in wage or self-employment, and people who are un- or underemployed. [These activities] should be accessible to all those who want to change, or improve upon, their skills and qualifications in order to enhance their job and income earning prospects"
They also argue that learning and training have two distinct purposes, that is, when they serve: - in "a proactive, or developmental, function; " or a constructive role and
- as a remedy by providing equity or a cushioning effect or impact
Building proactive distance or continuing educational, training and learning programs or services for career-focused or vocational-oriented adults demands initiatives which enable people and enterprises to:- seize new opportunities
- become key competitive instruments for providing goods and services
- endow themselves with multiple skills and competences
- exploit the full potential of advanced technologies
- adjust and retool their behavioral, teamwork and social skills
- continuously renew their knowledge about markets, technology along with the organization and nature of work
- broaden and increase their efforts to acquire, leverage and capitalize on knowledge-enhancement opportunities
The European Commission [EC] implicitly recognized the need for adult-compatible, distance, continuing web based or online training and elearning forums as far back as 1993. In their insightful, "White Paper - on growth, competitiveness, and employment:
The challenges and ways forward into the 21st century" they indicate that the,
"various types of measures to be taken should be to develop human resources throughout people's working lives, starting with basic education and working through initial training to continuing training"
The ILO concurs with the EC's imperative of lifelong continuing training and learning,
"The development and expansion of technical and vocational education as continuing education, both within and outside the formal education system, with either public or private funding, and within the framework of lifelong learning, should be a priority objective of all educational strategies"
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