Since our birth, we have been habituated in the most traditional methodology of education, which is Instructor Led Training or ILT in brief. A teacher comes to the class and teaches the students directly, where the student can directly interact with the teacher and the teacher has also got the advantage of reading the pulse of the students while teaching through their body languages. But as usual as it is human dependent, the quality of teaching and its effects vary a lot between one teacher to the other.

This is also true that the newly defined term professionalism has made the people eager to achieve educational degree and mainly people even at middle of their career have become keen in higher studies. The fact of life is that neither they have got time to attend regular classes, nor they have have got the patience of studying with the students of different age groups. They also can not afford to losses caused due to human errors of a teacher. So, the other modes of learning have become imperative.

The advantage of usage of modern tools and techniques in education could have been traced with the introduction of Computer Based Education, where the teacher used to present a subject and started providing live demonstration to the students for laboratory based experiments. In reality the audio visual impact of such training has become phenomenal. Students can also play and rewind the show again and again at their own choice for accuracy and this sort of repeatation would hardly annoy the teacher as the teacher had literally undertaken the headache of preparation material once only. Though it started with video, the technology marvels didnt take much time to convert it in compact disks. At a later stage, we have found various software giants like Oracle or Micro Soft have provided many such training materials in the form of compact Disk (CD). The CD based teaching has been more popularly termed as Computer Based Training.

The Internet era has given birth to Web Based Training or online training. The advantage is that the education providers can upload their lessons on the web and aspirants can study their respective lessons at any point of time from any part of the world. The main advantage is that the study materials can be updated at any point of time and also at a much lower cost.

The key advantage is that the updates reach the readers instantaneously.

The only drawback of online education is that the kind of grpahics, which can be used for Computer Based Training, can not be used for online training due to the bandwidth problem of Internet. In CBTs, heavy graphics can be used including any size of videos and audios which substantially occupy a major bandwidth and time while downloading in case of online education. So, it restrains the content developers partially. The good news is that technology marvels and popularity of Internet have increased the reach as well as the speed drastically in the recent days.

Perhaps the best way should be the mix and match of all three different modes of learning, which can make the learning more enjoyable and much more fruitful.

In the recen past, the sea change has been noticed in education, even many traditional universities have grabbed the opportunity of online training.

At the end, one message for the career oriented aspirants. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn