Changing societal demographics place pressure on educational institutions, forcing them to develop cost-effective instructional delivery systems. The direction of this exploration is guided by newly evolving technologies and information delivery systems, advances in neuropsychology and the cognitive sciences, and new philosophies and learning paradigms. It uses technology to create learning environments with neither walls nor clocks. Education administrators presently experiment with WBI as a possible solution to the need to serve additional students without the additional costs involved in expanding facilities and in hiring additional personnel. The central debate is what effect WBI will have on student learning.
Organizations currently strive to create information-age learners with limited finances.
WBI provides an attractive, low-cost solution to this problem. Since 1990, technology's potential to deliver self-paced training has expanded exponentially with the development of the Internet. These students are leaders in the management of information being only one click away from leaving the web-based learning environment. WBI i.e. materials that captivate the learner's interest and provide the information for which they were searching. Our ability to conceive new ways of using technology for information management, and learning should expand far beyond the current educational systems' limitations.