A modern issue that trainers are facing is creating a digital context for your training, but many trainers want to move on from “conference room” training, and into a more comprehensive, self-guided way of learning. The benefits of supporting self-guided training are substantial; self-guided learning on the part of trainees is going to free up some time for trainers to act as mentors when trainees need real-world support.
To help this process seem a little less complicated, Josh Bersin, author of The Disruption of Digital Technology, states that the key to understanding self-guided learning using technology is understanding that “digital learning is a way of learning, not a type of learning”.