The article forecasts the continuation of the growth of electronic learning in 2006 by eighty percent of training and human resource managers who responded to the survey conducted by Bersin & Associates in the U.S. and Canada. The researchers also discovered four distinct stages of e-learning maturity across all industries and company sizes. Most of the firms considered it as a business performance enhancement tool and as a means of increasing efficiency and impact. Training organizations can use the maturity model to evaluate the effectiveness of their training initiatives.