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An Empirical Study on Effectiveness of Web Based Training Methods
In the globalised corporate world, web based technology is being used as tool for imparting training to employees beyond geographical boundaries of the organization at a minimal cost. This study is aimed at evaluating effectiveness of Web Based Training (WBT) and also explored the effect of selective demographic variables such as age, team size, education and income. Empirical analysis supported that learning out come from using WBT method , by and large, affected by factors like mental focus of trainees, technical difficulties encountered during learning and to a lesser degree dimensions like self efficacy of trainees, negative thoughts had an impact on learning outcome.
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Technical Difficulties, Self Efficacy, Negative Thought, Mental Focus, Meta Focus.
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