This may include the following:

• You have too many people to train and not enough trainers or classroom space to accommodate their needs.

• Your students are based all over the globe but your travel budget won't take your trainers far.

• Your staff is pressed for time. Taking them away from their jobs for traditional classroom training is prohibitive.

• Your new employees fail to grasp the big picture because it is buried inside your reference manuals.

• You require an electronic medium to provide Just In Time (JIT) and Just Enough (JET) training.

• You want to leverage your existing training materials as a sales and marketing tool.

• Your customers/employees want e-Learning but you have neither the in-house talent nor the time to deliver.

Clearly then, there are a number of benefits to be had from this exciting teaching medium. Though not an exhaustive list, here are some key benefits:

• Effective: studies show that this form of training is 30 percent more effective at skills transfer and retention than classroom training.

• Convenient: you train in a place and at a time to suit yourself.

• Price: you only pay for the tuition, saving on accommodation, subsistence, travel and opportunity.

• One-to-one: during online sessions, you have a private, personal tutor.

• Support: during lectures, you can network with your fellow-students and lecturer.

• Exam preparation: frequent testing before and after courses enables you to revise topics not fully understood.

The Internet and the Web has emerged as some of the educator's most important tools, with the Web the most popular way to access the Internet. The Web is probably the most educational, entertaining and productive tool available today. With full video and audio capabilities and a platform-independent global network in place, the possibilities afforded by the Web for teaching and development programmes are boundless.