Online instruction gains an increasing presence due to associated benefits, including the ability to disregard geographical and time constraints, and the belief that online training is more cost efficient. This paper provides a discussion of issues to be faced by HRD professionals who intend to move the training environment online in response to current business and academic environments, and provides a matrix to compare costs of online training with traditional training mediums. (Contains 1 figure.) [For complete proceedings, see ED491481.]