2010 Employer e-learning benchmarking survey

• Australian Flexible Learning Framework

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27 August 2010The Australian Flexible Learning Framework's 2010 survey of 800 employers shows that the use of e-learning in workplace continues to increase.

E-learning is now an integral component of training for Australian businesses. Employers are taking advantage of the flexibility of e-learning to provide timely and efficient access for employees to acquire and develop a wide range of skills and work related knowledge.

The Australian Flexible Learning Framework's latest 2010 E-learning Benchmarking Survey of 800 employers shows that the use of e-learning in workplace continues to increase.

• 50% of Australian organisations use e-learning as part of structured or unstructured training they provide to their employees (up from 40% in 2009).
• 42% of all employers' rated their knowledge of e-learning as 4 or 5 out of 5 (vs 37% in 2009), with an average score of 3.2 out of 5 (vs 3.0 in 2009). Ratings are even higher for employers who have had employees undertake VET through a registered training organisation (RTO) in the past 12 months.
• 60% of employers said that they expect their organisation's use of e-learning in provision of training to employees to increase in the next two years (vs 49% in 2009). Again, the response was higher among organisations which currently have employees undertaking accredited training.
• 85% of employers said that they would encourage their employees to use e-learning if it was available (vs 81% in 2009).
• Employers who are engaged with the training system are also now more aware of and more satisfied with the e-learning services being offered by training providers.