• eLearning has significantly lower cost than classroom delivery
• increasingly, traditional delivery methods simply aren't fast enough to address the needed rate of change in organizations
• travel restrictions often limit access to classroom training
• eLearning has higher skill/knowledge retention rates than classroom delivery
• eLearning has shorter time to completion than classroom delivery

The first three points above are quite straightforward. Do you know what causes the last two phenomena? To listen to the hype one would think these are somehow "caused" by the internet. No, the causes are very human and as old as learning.