ORGANIZATIONAL E-LEARNING IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONTEXT: A ROMANIAN CASE-STUDY Cover Image

ORGANIZATIONAL E-LEARNING IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONTEXT: A ROMANIAN CASE-STUDY
ORGANIZATIONAL E-LEARNING IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONTEXT: A ROMANIAN CASE-STUDY

Author(s): Anca-Mihaela Stefan, Ailin Seit-Amet, Maria-Iuliana Dascălu, Elisabeth Lazarou
Subject(s): Education, Management and complex organizations, Health and medicine and law, Distance learning / e-learning
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: E-learning; e-training; organizational learning; virtual classroom; teaching process;

Summary/Abstract: E-learning concepts gained significant importance in the last decade, tending to be more and more attractive to companies, as skilled employees are the biggest asset of a company. Companies have included e-learning into their business operations. E-learning supports learners with some special capabilities such as interactivity, strong search, immediacy, physical mobility and situating of educational activities, self-organized and self-directed learning, corporate training, personalized learning, and effective technique of delivering lesson and gaining knowledge Because in the last year most companies embraced the “work from home” method, the management needed to take some measures and convert their usual teaching/learning techniques to online trainings. The current paper examines the impact of organizational e-learning on Romanian employees’ productivity, performance, and skills. This study is supported by an innovative online survey from different Romanian public and private organizations and qualitative interviews with some of the participants. The results concluded there is a correlation between e-learning usage and job productivity, performance, and satisfaction. Also, the advantages, the drawbacks of e- learning and the key factors for implementing it successfully were underlined in this paper.

  • Issue Year: 17/2021
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 320-326
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English