Development of the Distance Learning Programs for Staff Development

Training and development of personnel plays a crucial role in improving the competitiveness of the company. The topic of development of distance learning programs for employees and the formation of the educational environment is particularly relevant now for modern Russia, when in the conditions of crisis and budget cuts the task of maintaining the skills of employees at a high level is quite difficult. Successful Russian companies seeking to take a leading position in their field of activity have always actively invested in the development of personnel, believing that such a personnel policy can bring high profits. However, in times of crisis, it is becoming more difficult to adhere to such principles, and now there is a reduction in the cost of educational programs. Currently there is a renewed interest in development of the corporate education programs, based on the distance technologies. The article considers the distance learning of employees in Russian companies under formation of the electronic information-educational environment: priorities, technological solutions, elements of information-communication technologies. Special attention is given to the distance learning principles, the impact of distance-learning components on labour productivity and enhancing the workflow efficiency in the organization. There is the determined dependence of the distance learning quality and success on efficiency of the organization and methodological quality of the used resources. Analysis of the practice to apply in Russian companies the distance learning technologies of the staff showed that the use of such educational format resolves a number of tasks that cannot be solved using the traditional learning forms explaining the growing popularity of the distance learning programs in modern corporate educational systems.