The Accidental Instructional Designer, 2nd Edition: Learning Design for the Digital Age

by Cammy Bean

According to ATD’s 2022 State of the Industry report, US organizations spent, on average, $1,280 per employee on direct learning expenditure in 2021. Technology-based delivery, including self-paced e-learning and virtual classroom, saw a rapid rise from 2019 to 2020 as one might expect, with technology-based methods accounting for 79 percent of available learning hours (up from 54 percent of hours available in 2019). And while that number fell to 69 percent in 2021, that’s still a lot of e-learning. Now think of the thousands, perhaps millions, of hours that employees must endure of this awful, awful stuff, just so they can tick a required box in their LMS and say, “See, I learned it!”