Economic, social and technological forces continue to change the global economy, and the way of life in organizations and the world. In specific, these forces have and continue to revolutionalize teaching and learning in organizations. Technology, the rapid obsolescence of knowledge and training, the need for just-in-time training delivery, and the search for cost effective ways to meet learning needs of a globally distributed workforce have redefined the processes that underlie design, development and delivery of training and education in the workplace.
In the context of companies, e-Learning has merits in terms of access convenience, costs reduction, self-directed learning, reciprocity, and flexbility.
In this regard, the primary purpose of this study is to investigate evaluation methods of e-Learning effectiveness. The results of this study shows that evaluation methods of e-Learning effectiveness are comprised of three components: training effectiveness in e-Learning, technology satisfaction, and learner achievement.
First, Training effectiveness in e-Learning is composed of learner satisfaction, participation and interaction, feedback of learning. Second, technology satisfaction is composed of curriculum delivery methods and preference, learning environment, interface design. finally, learner achievement is composed of learning usefulness, achievement of learning objective, influence of job performance.