Originally Posted by atpcliff

This is becoming quite common now throughout the industry. Doing online self-study, can be WAY better than a classroom setting, or WAY worse. It depends on the software and the classroom instructor/material/presentation.

At my airline we're on our second version of online training, and it is MUCH better than the first generation, and pretty good overall. One thing that is nice for recurrent training is that they have spread the annual training into four blocks, due quarterly. We can also download the training modules and do them off-line, if we want to.