On-the-job e-learning: Workers' attitudes and perceptions

The use of e-learning for on-the-job training has grown exponentially in the last decade due to it being accepted by people in charge of businesses. Few papers have explored virtual training from the workers’ standpoint, that is, the perception they have about the different training methodologies (f...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Josep-Maria Batalla-Busquets, Carmen Pacheco-Bernal
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2013
Materias:	e-learning on-the-job training worker’s attitudes and perceptions ICT perceptual map factor analysis Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/b650e5480fbf42b382ef11221787259e
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:b650e5480fbf42b382ef11221787259e
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b650e5480fbf42b382ef11221787259e2021-12-02T19:20:49ZOn-the-job e-learning: Workers' attitudes and perceptions10.19173/irrodl.v14i1.13041492-3831https://doaj.org/article/b650e5480fbf42b382ef11221787259e2013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1304https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831The use of e-learning for on-the-job training has grown exponentially in the last decade due to it being accepted by people in charge of businesses. Few papers have explored virtual training from the workers’ standpoint, that is, the perception they have about the different training methodologies (face-to-face vs. virtual) and the attitudes they have towards on-the-job learning. Training, in this context, is an investment for both the two participating agents: businesses and workers. It seems logical that knowing the perceptions and attitudes shown by the targets of the training is, at least, as important as knowing the advantages for the companies. To analyse workers’ perceptions and attitudes we conducted an online survey of 2,000 employees of the leading European savings bank, CaixaBank (http://www.caixabank.com/index_en.html), on training habits, perceptions, motivations, and disincentives of undertaking face-to-face or online instruction. The results reveal that workers perceive e-learning as a more flexible and up-to-date training methodology. On the other hand, face-to-face training continues to be perceived as a more motivating methodology compared to virtuality and with better explanations from the course trainers. As regards motivations given by the workers when it comes to training, there are three main groups of attitudes: those which are more affective and social, those which reveal poor adaptability or fear of the new training requirements, and, finally, those linked to the knowledge society. Such results state that while the benefits of distance methodology can be clearly identified from the company’s point of view (i.e., as a flexible and efficient methodology to develop the employees’ skills and knowledge), from the employees’ standpoint, the advantages of virtual training are not so clear and depend to a great extent on their attitude towards the use of virtuality.Josep-Maria Batalla-BusquetsCarmen Pacheco-BernalAthabasca University Pressarticlee-learningon-the-job trainingworker’s attitudes and perceptionsICTperceptual mapfactor analysisSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 14, Iss 1 (2013)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	e-learning on-the-job training worker’s attitudes and perceptions ICT perceptual map factor analysis Special aspects of education LC8-6691
spellingShingle	e-learning on-the-job training worker’s attitudes and perceptions ICT perceptual map factor analysis Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Josep-Maria Batalla-Busquets Carmen Pacheco-Bernal On-the-job e-learning: Workers' attitudes and perceptions
description	The use of e-learning for on-the-job training has grown exponentially in the last decade due to it being accepted by people in charge of businesses. Few papers have explored virtual training from the workers’ standpoint, that is, the perception they have about the different training methodologies (face-to-face vs. virtual) and the attitudes they have towards on-the-job learning. Training, in this context, is an investment for both the two participating agents: businesses and workers. It seems logical that knowing the perceptions and attitudes shown by the targets of the training is, at least, as important as knowing the advantages for the companies. To analyse workers’ perceptions and attitudes we conducted an online survey of 2,000 employees of the leading European savings bank, CaixaBank (http://www.caixabank.com/index_en.html), on training habits, perceptions, motivations, and disincentives of undertaking face-to-face or online instruction. The results reveal that workers perceive e-learning as a more flexible and up-to-date training methodology. On the other hand, face-to-face training continues to be perceived as a more motivating methodology compared to virtuality and with better explanations from the course trainers. As regards motivations given by the workers when it comes to training, there are three main groups of attitudes: those which are more affective and social, those which reveal poor adaptability or fear of the new training requirements, and, finally, those linked to the knowledge society. Such results state that while the benefits of distance methodology can be clearly identified from the company’s point of view (i.e., as a flexible and efficient methodology to develop the employees’ skills and knowledge), from the employees’ standpoint, the advantages of virtual training are not so clear and depend to a great extent on their attitude towards the use of virtuality.
format	article
author	Josep-Maria Batalla-Busquets Carmen Pacheco-Bernal
author_facet	Josep-Maria Batalla-Busquets Carmen Pacheco-Bernal
author_sort	Josep-Maria Batalla-Busquets
title	On-the-job e-learning: Workers' attitudes and perceptions
title_short	On-the-job e-learning: Workers' attitudes and perceptions
title_full	On-the-job e-learning: Workers' attitudes and perceptions
title_fullStr	On-the-job e-learning: Workers' attitudes and perceptions
title_full_unstemmed	On-the-job e-learning: Workers' attitudes and perceptions
title_sort	on-the-job e-learning: workers' attitudes and perceptions
publisher	Athabasca University Press
publishDate	2013
url	https://doaj.org/article/b650e5480fbf42b382ef11221787259e
work_keys_str_mv	AT josepmariabatallabusquets onthejobelearningworkersattitudesandperceptions AT carmenpachecobernal onthejobelearningworkersattitudesandperceptions
_version_	1718376817772986368

On-the-job e-learning: Workers' attitudes and perceptions

Ejemplares similares