Tom Graunke, Founder and CEO, StormWindI From Training Magazine's Inside Training e-newsletter

I helped create e-Learning 1.0 and am here to tell you it has been a complete and miserable failure. This is a bold statement, I realize, so let me explain. At the time, it was edgy and innovative, this idea of using online resources to provide training to vast numbers of people spread out globally. The objective of e-Learning 1.0 was to replace classroom training that required travel with a more cost-effective worldwide deployable methodology. The promise was better learning retention.

We achieved the objective pretty easily but at a steep downside.

Read the rest of the very thoughtful article here.