Her daddy had brought her to work and was proudly showing off his latest computer-based training course. Out of the mouths of babes, as they say. She was right, the computer-based training I'd created was boring.
Many people resist signing up and still more drop out before completing courses.
Ostensibly, new course models emerging on the Web are based on a book metaphor. The word on the street is that online training is boring. The street is right, of course, at least as far as it goes. Online training, or e-learning, is boring. And often ineffective.