Does anyone really believe that technical eLearning is being properly evaluated and selected ? Take a look at some of the rubbish material provided by big eLearning vendors and wonder aloud !
I have a concern that the more focussed the content (ie technical, or domain-specific) the less can a HR staffer, eLearning/Training buyer, or plain 'front-of-house obstacle' detect value in the product at all. So the easy thing to do is just invent a 'we don't like/use elearning' excuse.
Is it vaguely possible that they are just focusing on (a) price (b) volume of titles, or (c) their own job ?
My suggestion for making some progress here is that corporations should look afresh at the eLearning debate. It is not useful to just say 'we got no value from buying it before'. If you never put in place the proper evaluations, roll-out programs, and evaluation metrics - and never followed up by making employees feel good about doing some learning activities, just forget it. You should not have the job. Go fishing.
Don't make eLearning the explanation for your poor training processes, budget or unhappy job. Go and look at it again. Your competitors in Asia (and eventually Africa) use it in huge volumes - because they know that acquiring up-to-date skills is difficult. Particularly now that big corporations have rightsized their best (ie most knowledgeable rather than most compliant) people. And why have you lost so many jobs anyway ? Is it because your corporation just could not cut it with the right set of skills ?
Or are your top guys blaming somebody else for that too ?
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