Michael Allen's 2009 e-Learning Annual

Chapter 11. E-LEARNING IN ADOLESCENCE

Jay Cross

Courses are dead! Early e-learning not only tried to automate an obsolete model of learning, but also did it poorly, says industry commentator Jay Cross. But e-learning is growing up. Breaking free from outmoded instructional models originally designed to address constraints of their times, e-learning designers are now beginning to build on the realities of how people behave and learn today as well as on the new context for learning that is the Internet. As e-learning continues to mature, it is becoming radically different than it was in its infancy and far more effective.

When some of us began adding an "e" to learning for the first time ten years ago, venture capitalists threw money at the vendors ...