Acceptable course lengths have changed over time for both ILT and eLearning. Five-day ILT courses are being cut to three so employees don’t have to travel over the week-end. eLearning seat time is being reduced from hours, to minutes, to the new extreme of “micro-learning” in 30-40 second bursts. For that reason, many old courses feel endless to today’s learners. Start by breaking down the content into small bite-size chunks with only one simple objective. Then cut out the fat – all that information the SME just had to have in the course, but isn’t needed to support the learning objective.