The web represents a new way of looking at training. Information on the web is organized in an ever expanding
network of nodes and links that represent the more traditional domains of knowledge. The web uses text and
graphics interactively and video-audio to a lesser extent these characteristics make the web more useful tool.
With its versatility and interconnectedness, the web offers one of the most effective ways, to deliver training to
geographically widely-spread settings.
Online training can be synchronous or asynchronous. Synchronous means “at the same time. In training, it is
instruction delivered via a network that requires learners and an instructor to be online at the same time to
participate in learning interactions.”12This type of delivery is live and is place independent, but time dependent.
For example, a web broadcast seminar that is sent on a certain date and time is an example of synchronous
delivery. Although the participants in the web seminar do not have to be physically present at the date and time
of the scheduled delivery to participate. Conversely, asynchronous delivery is both time and place independent.
A training course available at the convenience of the individual end user 24 hours a day, 7 days a week is an
example of asynchronous delivery