The next big killer application for the Internet is going to be education. Education over the Internet is going to be so big it is going to make email usage look like a rounding error. The first quote was predicted by William Harper in 1885. The second was delivered by John Chambers in 2000. It seems as if every new Media winds up as training's new darling.
Trainers blame their present tools and readily embrace a new technology.
But, there is great deal of hype, both on and off the internet, of e-learning being the next great savior of training, development, and education. This paper will look at both the hype and the validity of e-learning.