Writing in Forbes, Brandon Busteed observes that corporate education and training will never return to the classroom, moving online as quickly and fully as possible. He points out that as the training and upskilling requirements in many companies rise, the only way to address the needs and scale the educational response is to move online.
While employers turn to online education for scale and cost reasons as well as for the ability to ensure quality and assess impact, employees prefer it for the convenience of scheduling learning as they wish and the ability to do it from home. With corporate education already moving online, the pandemic that sent workers home to work remotely is only accelerating the trend.
Busteed believes that the corporate education will be primarily online, and only questions whether higher education itself will now move online for many of the same reasons. Undergraduate education may hold onto the campus experience for now, but it is easy to imagine professional education quickly following corporate learning in the move to online delivery.
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