We've been training adults online for over 20 years. We started by sending text to a chat room for real-time interactive learning or publishing tutorials online to complete in your own time. The technology has advanced, but two important principles remain the same:

1. Adults Learn by Doing. Making adults sit in a room where we just talk at them isn't very effective. Showing them an example and then having them do it themselves is most effective. This means not every job can be learned effectively through online training.
2. Adults Learn Better Together. We don't need to see each other in person to bond. We don't need to see each other on video to bond. What we do need is an opportunity to interact. The advantage is employees who will be comfortable supporting each other out in the workplace so will do a better job faster than employees who enter the work environment as strangers.