Online Training: Factors Associated on Performance and Satisfaction of the Trainees

This book is an outcome of an empirical study carried out online training conducted for the academic counsellors of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), who provides learner support to its various learning centres. The academic counsellors are mainly drawn from conventional system of education. As it is difficult to provide training to all the academic counsellors in face-to-face situation, an attempt has been made to train them through online training platform. The major focus of this study is to identify a set of factors with regard to online training that lead to improved performance and satisfaction for online trainees; a set of characteristics of the trainees that could lead to successful completion of the online training programme; the learning styles of the trainees and the nature of relation between the learning styles and the trainees' performances; and to end out a set of factors that could work as barriers to online training. A framework for online training environment has been proposed which can be used for design and development of online training for any discipline. The fndings of the study would help the university to end out the effectiveness of the online training and also to improve the quality of ongoing and future online training programmes. The researchers, teachers, administrators, policy makers and others who want to deliver training programmes through online mode would also be benefited from the endings. It can also serve as a reference book for the academicians, researchers and institutions who aiming to design training through online for their employees in any discipline.…