One of the promises of the Internet revolution is to cut unnecessary waste. It makes no sense to have your e-learning company produce all new graphics for your program and then be unable to use those new assets in your other training materials: instructor guides, PowerPoint presentations, advanced training courses, or anything else for that matter. Make sure your WBT partner is adept at reusing your existing assets and creates images and saves them so they can be used again. Specifically, make sure they use stock photos with liberal reusage rights (royalty-free being the best), and saves copies of important imagery at print-quality resolutions (onscreen images are fine at 72 dpi, but laser printers need at least 300 dpi. Real printing, like for a poster to display behind an instructor or a four-color self-paced training guidebook, will need even higher resolution.) Make sure any talent they use for photography signs permission letters that clear you for web distribution. It does you no good to pay for a model's time (even if it is only fifty bucks to the good-looking guy who works on the floor below you) only to find you can't legally "repurpose" that photograph when the course graduates from your company intranet to an Internet-based training site. Experienced WBT developers are adept at obtaining clear rights to their work and your materials. If you're only going to do online learning, this isn't as much of an issue. But if you're going to use blended learning approaches, you'll need assets that can travel easily from medium to medium.
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