One of the most significant benefits of doing E-Learning is that you don’t have to travel to event locations and can learn anything from the comfort of your own home. Road transport has become the biggest contributor to air pollution in the UK.

A study done by the Open University found that “distance learning higher education courses involve 87% less energy and 85% lower CO2 emissions than the full-time campus-based courses.”

Not only do you save yourself time planning to get to your events, but you also don’t release any carbon emissions to get access to e-learning. 

With an e-learning course, you have the option to eliminate all physical materials and give all of their information online.

According to research, 350 million cartridges end up in a landfill each year from printing, estimated to take around 1,000 years to decompose completely.

People can access their resources online or print them off at home instead of the company printing all the guest’s paper resources.

When hiring out a space to host events and classes, there are many ways we use energy.

• Turning on the lights

• Turning on projectors

• Heating/air conditioning

• Catering

By doing an e-learning course, companies can save money hiring out these spaces as well as any additional costs to look after their guests. 

Many all-day events will have catered food for their guests which increases the electricity and possibility of food waste.

According to WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme), food waste costs the hospitality and food service sector £3.2 billion every year. 

Being able to take sessions online allows individuals to use the food they already have at home, limiting both food waste in their own kitchen and also going to physical events.

Now, this last one isn’t about sustainability but e-learning has many other benefits other than helping the environment.

Since the pandemic, we have valued much more of our time being with loved ones as well as sharing the importance of mental health & how we should take time to look after ourselves. 

Providing e-learning can give your audience the flexibility to attend these courses whenever suits them. You don’t have to revisit subjects face to face but have access to all of the resources on your devices.

This also benefits your employees by creating the videos at one time that can be used hundreds of times so they can spend time working on other tasks & projects.