Like web sites, eLearning has four stages of adoption:
Stage 1: Course Infrastructure
Installing LMS
Purchases outsourced courses
Stage 2: Internal course development
Graphic or web pages daisy chained together with forward and back navigation, and a test at the end of the course
Moving PowerPoint presentations online, sometimes with a test at the end
Stage 3: Flat navigable course
Course is based on best of breed web design
Includes appropriate graphics, exercises, and access to resources.
Stage 4: Course tracking (AICC, SCORM), integration with your employee database.