In the .edu community, faculty roles will change . Administrators will realize that lecturing on basic topics is not the best use of their resources. Corporate purchasing will become much more sophisticated. A couple of years ago, training was an ordinary annual expense because individual courses didn t cost much or last very long. On the other hand, eLearning infrastructure costs a lot and will be treated as a capital expenditure to be allocated over a number of years.
Capital expenditures require solid plans for the future and financial metrics.