Hi members.Iam currently researching about how institutions in developing countries can blend face-to-face with e-learning at low cost. Is there any known percentage threshold of face-to-face composition(compared to e-learning composition) in the blend that an institution must buy a CMS (like Blackboard or WebCT) than developing a simple e-learning software in-house to run the e-learning activities? For example, if A,B,C and D learning activities are to be online, then you must buy the CMS than developing it in-house.
Thanks.

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No formula, but my opinion is- whatever makes the most fiscal sense will always determine.

Although not in a developing country, I have a friend who runs a call-center business where he was pulling his top sales folks to train new hires (or doing it himself). In an environment of high turnover, you have high cost (or high opportunity cost) from the most expensive employees ($200+/hr) training $10/hr resources.

After a quick forecast of how much "call center 101" training could be transformed to an online medium (and what options exist, like Moodle), the decision to "purchase" a CMS to deploy blended training was simple- it just made a LOT of fiscal sense.

Please note, I don't feel (esp. for sales-based cultures or anything with high levels of customer interaction) that "all can go online". There are aspects of speaking with customers that need to be observed and mentored that computer-based measurement really won't facilitate adequately. However, the level of compression of "live interaction" to cover these areas versus the items that are more "process and info-delivery" based (which translate to WBT), made the case.