Those offering blended or fully online training already have benefited from the drop in in-person training and the incumbents’ difficulties adapting to online - companies like Strive (cohort-based blended leadership & management training) or Cultivate (manager training based on analysis of daily communications).
Batch processing made sense in the industrial era, where you didn't have technology to customize learning. In the factory model, you'd teach to the median and lose the kids at the top and bottom of the curve.
The thing that people scoff at -- these are just stupid jpegs! -- is the same thing that makes them so rife for narrative building. They’re largely empty vessels into which the community of owners and supporters can pour stories that turn into a narrative.
some of the biggest challenges faced by computers and human minds alike: how to manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future; how to do so with grace and confidence; and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same