One of the advantages of online training is that you can update content regularly. When you produce print-based material, it may become outdated quickly, depending on the subject matter. It is costly and time-consuming to reprint a manual or a text book. Thanks to technology, however, it can be relatively straightforward to change, update or otherwise modify material. If you currently do face-to-face training using tools such as PowerPoint, you probably already do this each time you present your material.
How you actually update your online training content and the ease of doing so will depend on the approach you use (website, synchronous/asynchronous, text-based, etc.). It will also depend upon your organization's capacity to do so. Reviewing material to ensure that it is still relevant or verifying that links still work does require an investment in time. Making changes or adding new material and resources also requires time and possibly money. Depending on how your training was set up, updating content might be something that you can do in-house or you may have to pay someone else, such as your website developer, to do it.
