Michael Allen's 2009 e-Learning Annual

Preface

This volume is a striking collection of papers. If the controversy presented herein doesn't startle you, the variety of prescriptions for a successful path forward should.

e-Learning is no simple business. After decades of work emanating from the visions of the field's founders and shared in our 2008 e-Learning Annual, the diversity of considered recommendations and models is exceeded now only by the diversity of options technology provides. Clearly, multiple approaches have been successful, but far more have failed and continue to do so by almost any measure of learning and performance.

THE DISADVANTAGE OF COST SAVINGS

In the pioneering days of e-learning, the high costs of delivery were an unrecognized asset. The astronomical costs ...