How do young people respond to e-learning? 

The Association of Learning Providers conducted a national survey into access, use and the impact of technology and elearning within government funded Work Based Learning programmes.  Some interesting findings emerged, which could suggest that the use of technology by apprentices and E2E (entry to employment) learners is having a positive impact on their learning experience.  Here are just a few of the headlines:

• Learners are more likely to stay in their learning programme if they have access to technology – improved retention rates
• The majority of learners agree that technology has allowed their learning programmes to be better tailored to their learning needs – personalised learning.
• A significant number of learners agree that using technology makes them more motivated to learn – improved achievement and retention.
• Over half of those interviewed said they would like to use technology more as part of their learning programme.
• E2E learners are even more likely to want to use technology
• Most learners believe they have sufficient access to a computer – this is significantly reduced for E2E learners.

Also some very interesting variations in the use of technology emerged regionally and across occupational sectors.

You can download the summary here or access the full report from ALP's website

This article was originally created by the Work based e-learning project at e-skills UK and is reproduced with kind permission.

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