PART TWO: Management and leadership training and development delivered through e-learning outside the business schools

Neill Schofield and Elizabeth Rylance-Watson

This report sets out the findings of a short study into the scope and scale of the use of e learning within management and leadership training in the UK outside HE. The scope of this study specifically excludes all e-learning activity within Business Schools and HE institutions. (That is the subject of a separate study commissioned by CEML.)

There is some variation in the literature in how e-learning is defined, depending on whether it is restricted to web-based technology or any use of IT . There are a number of quite similar formulations , but in this work we have used the definition :
"E-learning refers to the application of the internet and web-based technology to learning processes."
We specifically include corporate intranets under web-based technology.

The report is based on survey results, reports, investigation of websites and a substantial number of mostly telephone interviews with a wide range of people. They are listed at Annex 1. We are grateful to everyone who has contributed to the project

The report starts with the demand-side, saying as far as it can which types of organisations and businesses are making use of e-learning and what type. It then looks at the supply side from the perspective of the employer seeking learning as a business tool.