Abstract
More practical and experiential education was the demand of executives recently surveyed about how universities could better meet employers' needs (Harvey & Manweller, 2015). As an alternative, with enhanced Web and mobile technologies, executives are seeing the opportunity to provide employees access to essential education in the workplace. Global e-learning is expected to top $107 billion in 2015 (Pappas, 2015), and U.S. corporations each year are now spending $1,169 per employee on training (Bersin, 2014b). Bersin says organizations are facing not a lack of employees but a lack of key skills among employees, and that is driving the trend (Bersin, 2014b). Harvard's Clayton Christensen, famous for his theories on disruptive technologies, suggests that even Harvard could be in jeopardy if it does not respond to these trends (Christensen, 2012). This chapter explores different strategies and technologies that can help meet these demands, and includes a case study of a university plan that makes distance learning more faculty-friendly, student-accessible, and cost-effective.