In today’s digital age, you need to use the online medium to ensure that your employees and end users get enough on-demand opportunities to increase their knowledge and skills. The e-training that you or your educational partner may impart to employees or general users makes them competent enough to execute particular tasks or fulfill certain responsibilities of their job profile effectively. Yet, online learning should also equips them with a qualification and lifelong capability that is recognized and respected by others, including their friends and family, your company, and other professional entities.
However, if an e-training course is not protected, it could easily get devalued and lose credibility in the market. Hence, e-training security is needed to protect the intellectual property of a training course in terms of the correct answers, the right results, the issue of a validated certificate reflecting the competency levels accurately, and so on.
Also, e-training security must ensure that only those who have paid for the course get access to the relevant study material to boost their learning process. These authorized users should also not be able to share the course material with unauthorized people. In other words, the idea is to avoid piracy (prevent the sharing of courses, images or flash files) and exercise control over how long these can be accessed by the authorized users.There is a similar requirement in terms of online learning security, where the providers may believe that the information is available publicly and can be shared without any worries. Just like with e-training, online learning providers also need to take into consideration the right set of exam questions to be used, the appropriate assessment method, and the accurate set of answers. One added benefit of online learning security is that it safeguards the skills and knowledge of the authors, as represented by the corresponding material.
Content is no longer protected by copyright almost 80 years after the death of the author and so there is scope to preserve the distinctness of the information revealed in online learning subjects. This makes a case for online learning security to be slightly different than e-training security due to the slight difference in the attitudes of the providers of these services.So, in case of online learning, there is a lot more at stake as the duration is considerably longer when compared to an e-training course. Similarly, the qualification (certificate and/or degree) which the user of an online learning course gets is likely to be of far greater importance when compared to the certificate (participation and/or successful completion) for an e-training module.
So, even though there is hardly any difference between online learning security and e-training security, it is worth knowing the minute differences discussed above. Feel free to share your feedback or queries in the comments section below.
