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Rosenberg, M. (2001) e-Learning: Strategies for delivering knowledge in the digital age. McGraw-Hill, p. 241.

“For training to be viable in the future simply embracing e-learning is not enough – the training organization must reinvent itself.”

This is particularly true for educational institutions steeped in classroom tradition. Adding a little technology in the mix is not reinventing the process. Businesses understand now that they can be knowledge centers as well. Academia can no longer “rest on its laurels” and expect to be the educational choice for 21st century learners. The cost of education continues to rise and in the current economic conditions especially, increases of salaries for “college educated” employees may become cost prohibitive societally. This is especially true in the proprietary college arena. When the gainful employment policies of the current Department of Education reach their full impact of limiting the amount of funding that makes it way to that sector of education and the truth that 90% of public funding is being used by traditional colleges and universities, the goose that lays the golden egg will begin to squawk there as well. It is time for educators and educational institutions to drive technology in learning, or take a back seat.