Last month Amit Gautam questioned if recession was a bad thing for effective eLearning.

As one of the comments there suggested training is seen as a cost-center in most organizations it is only natural to look for something cheapest.

I don’t intend to mean that you can’t find effective eLearning solutions that are cheaper than others, but yes if the focus is to find the cheapest solution, chances  are you overlook some other  (and I must say) more important parameters.