When introducing eLearning in a company, it is necessary to see if the decisions made in favour of eLearning are justified. That means finding answers to questions like “Are employees learning what they really need to?” or “Is eLearning worth it?” The answers to these questions can be obtained by using training system review instruments.

The training system review basically includes the planning, gauging, evaluation and improvement of company training activities. In this case, emphasis is placed on identifying the benefits of internal continuing education and the relationship between measure and targeted success at the place of work. Therefore one should be aware of the employees‘ training needs and determine well-defined schemes. Implementation of these schemes needs to be monitored in order to evaluate their affects on the work flow.
The training system review focuses on the following questions:

• What are the costs of continuing education?
  
• Which types of instruction and learning methods are particularly suited for achieving specific learning objectives? Are the measures really useful to the employees or is the investment unreasonable (effectiveness)?
• Is continuing education profitable for the company after all (efficiency)?

The terms discussed most frequently are “effectiveness” and “efficiency”:
While “learning effectiveness” refers to the relation between learning success and learning effort, “learning efficiency” relates to the evaluation of a measure based on its impact on the company‘s productivity.