Mahshid Gharibpoor - Ferdowsi university of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
Setare Sargazi - Department of Management, Neishaboor branch, Islamic Azad University, Neishaboor
Masoumeh Aref - Ferdowsi university of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Human capital is the most valuable asset of an organization that can create a sustainable competitive advantage for organizations. Therefore, organizations must continually develop its human resources by deciding to maintain them. Organizations have realized the importance of it and now have even passed traditional education and taken e-learning for developing their human resources. Due to the extensive learning of new methods of teaching, what isimportant now is to determine the efficacy of these two methods. For this purpose, this paper studied both traditional and e-learning training methods which are used by small and mediumsized enterprises and tried to compare the efficiency of these two methods. Efficiencymeasured using data envelopment analysis and eventually came to the conclusion that elearning is more efficient than traditional education

human resource development, e-learning, traditional education, efficiency, data envelopment analysis