Why the E-Learning Boom Went Bust

By ROBERT ZEMSKY and WILLIAM F. MASSY

Five years ago e-learning was everybody's buzz, offering the promise of a trillion-dollar market wrapped around the prospect of learning anytime, anywhere. All that is gone, replaced by a pervading sense of disappointment. In fact, e-learning is increasingly the butt of bad jokes, as in, "Can you imagine telling your children to go to their rooms and study...

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