Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Wednesday, September 04, 2002

http://www.computeruser.com/articles/2109,2,1,1,0901,02.html

Distance learning starts to shine
James Mathewson

...With online training, you can fit the training to your schedule, your pace, and your learning style. And you're not alone. A large and growing number of adult learners such as yourself are joining the ranks of the distance learning community for the very same reasons you are attracted to it. Cambridge, Mass.-based Giga Information recently reported that the e-learning industry will take in $4.5 billion this year. Framingham, Mass.-based IDC predicts that the e-learning market will grow by more than 40 percent in 2002. In a separate report, IDC says the e-learning market will exceed $18 billion by 2005. While some of that market will be in so-called "soft" skills, such as business process analysis, the vast majority of the market will continue to be characterized by learners of IT-related skills....

 



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