A Proposed Performance-Based System for Teacher Interactive Electronic Continuous Professional Development (TIE-CPD)

2. Features Of E-Training

Using appropriate electronic tools, e-training can assist trainees in accessing a system anywhere and at anytime. Such a system can encourage trainees to conduct independent study in an interactive, flexible, and non-linear manner, permitting individuals to control the pace of their training (Batalla-Busquets & Martínez-Arguelles, 2014; Hamid, Yusof, Ijab et al., 2008; Park, Son, & Kim, 2012; Ramayah, Ahmad & Hong, 2012; Wijakkanalan, Wijakkanalan, Suwannoi et al., 2013). Indirectly, web-based training may increase the speed of learning, decrease barriers, dispersal over a geographical range, and reducing costs of knowledge sharing (Chatzoglou, Sarigiannidis, Vraimaki et al., 2009; Mooghali & Mirghaderi, 2012). In addition to being cost-effective and flexible, implementation of e-training contemplates four advantages: (1) freedom to decide when each online lesson will be learned, (2) lack of dependence on time constraints, (3) freedom to express thoughts, and (4) accessibility to a course’s online materials (Ramayah et al., 2012).

Both individual educators and organizations could reap benefits from well-planned training, as asserted by Buckley & Caple (2009). Individual educators virtually-trained via e-training are likely to be digitally equipped, innovative, and capable of making intensive use of information technology, resulting in sequentially-produced highly-qualified human resources who gain integral job satisfaction by competently accomplishing tasks thereby achieving career enhancement and promotion. In addition to organizational activities, productivity-oriented and performance-oriented activities increase with shorter learning time; at the same time, reducing the time for costly training through e-training could serve as a mechanism for organizations in recording and identifying employees’ training needs and priorities and employee evaluation (Batalla-Busquets & Martínez-Arguelles, 2014). This may help organizations to outline appropriate and achievable training goals in designing e-training programs that fulfill employees’ needs and increase their interest and motivation (Chatzoglou et al., 2009).