A educação a distancia nas organizações: a percepção sobre o e-learning em uma grande empresa nacional

Abstract

This article seeks to ascertain how employees of a large national bank perceive the effectiveness of elearning as a learning tool, addressing issues related to the use of IT resources, self-discipline, full-time instructors, the learning level of e-learning courses, interactivity and graphic quality, the advantages of determining study time, relationship between e-learning courses and the company’s core competencies, the applicability of themes and respondents’ perception of whether e-learning is a trend or a fad. The results indicate that, overall, e-learning methodology is well accepted by this financial organization’s employees, and call for further studies to examine the difference in learning levels between e-learning courses and classroom courses, ways to compensate for the lack of permanent contact between instructor and student during the course, and the factors governing participants’ discipline in performing e-learning activities.