Skeptics of online learning can have good reasons for being skeptical. When they think about turning your community health worker program from a live training to computer-based, they are concerned about what it means for your organization. They wonder how much a new CHW training initiative will cost. They need to be assured that health workers will continue to learn when they’re looking at a computer as opposed to sitting in a meeting room.
On the other hand, skeptics can also have some pretty invalid reasons for throwing up roadblocks. Perhaps they hate computers. Maybe they fear change. Maybe, for whatever reason, they distrust your enthusiasm.
No matter what motivations your critics have, you’ll do a better job of making your case for shifting to training your staff through a computer-based program if you follow the tips below. In short, doing some prep work will make the job much easier.