Impact of Individual Differences and Organizational Learning Environment on E-Learning Effectiveness Dr. Manohar Hansa Lysandar*, Bindhu A.** *Associate Professor, Anna University, Chennai, India. mhansa@ymail.com **Research Scholar, Anna University, Chennai, India. bindhu.arumugam@gmail.com Online published on 23 March, 2017. Abstract E-learning is being increasingly adopted in corporate training owing to the invaluable benefits that it offers like learner centered learning, flexibility with respect to time and location, and performance tracking. India is the second biggest market for massive open online courses in the world, following the United States, with a growth rate of 8.8%. At this instance, both academicians and practitioners are interested in evaluating the effectiveness of e-learning systems so as to justify the huge investments associated with e-learning design and implementation. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of learners’ individual differences and learning environment of the organization on the most direct e-learning outcome, the learning achievement. A theoretical framework was formulated based on the previous literature and validated with empirical data collected from IT and ITES employees. The study has suggested that only five out of the eleven hypothesized variables had significant impact on learning achievement. Also the study was extended to examine the effect of demographic factors on learning achievement and the results are presented. The results of Hierarchical Multiple Regression prove that variables namely clarity of objectives, learning style, Participation, Collaborative environment, Management support, rewards, infrastructural support, perceived usefulness and learner satisfaction have significant impact on the level of learning. These results may be taken into consideration while designing e-learning systems for corporate training. Top Keywords Individual differences, learning achievement, learner centered learning, e-learning, corporate training. Top |