November’s e-learning meeting was standing room only! More than 35 members, non-members, and students gathered at the Olive Garden in Middletown to learn about some of the latest developments in e-learning from two experience practitioners.

If you weren’t there, you missed a great presentation given by Verne Moreland and Herb Bivens of ROI Learning Services. With over 40 years of combined experience, Verne and Herb held the audience’s attention and provided an overview of the definition, status, and direction of e-learning in business training today. They briefly described the evolution of e-learning, the emergence of "blended" learning, the importance of instructional design, and the benefits of e-learning both to learners and to the companies sponsoring the learning programs.

Next, they described how new courses are created in e-learning format and how existing courses can be converted to e-learning form for lower-cost delivery to larger, geographically dispersed audiences. They concluded by talking about ways to measure learning effectiveness and how e-learning can help companies become true learning organizations.