Is the Traditional Classroom Dying? Not Really.

Will talent development professionals eventually spend more time counting eyes on screens than they do bodies in chairs?

Looking at the graph of learning hours available by delivery method, that’s a natural question to ask. According to ATD’s 2015 State of the Industry report, the availability of instructor-led, classroom-based delivery fell in five of the six years between 2008 and 2014. It made up almost two-thirds of the learning hours available that year, but only half in 2014.&