Consider your organization s view of evolving technology. Internet technologies are certainly evolving, and will be for some time. If your organization tends to be fickle when it comes to funding technology that has a relatively short shelf life, WBT may not be a wise initiative. Many see WBT as nothing more than CBT through a browser, so if there was a terrible past experience with a CBT venture, count on plenty of resistance to on-line learning. Consider your organization s feelings toward high development costs versus delivery costs.
Technology mediated instruction tends to be much more costly to develop than to deliver.
Labor union contracts dictate not only who gets training, but also where and when that training takes place. Consider how much time has been made available to you in relation to when training must be launched. If management will support a web-based training initiative, but only gives you one month to implement it, short of changing their minds, WBT may not be the best choice. Naturally, consider the number of designers and techies you have in-house for development. If there are none, you may not be a good candidate for WBT until you rectify that situation.