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

Friday, November 05, 2004
E-learning's increasing popularity - CNN

At the height of the dotcom boom, e-learning was tipped as the next big thing in workplace education, with experts predicting that the future was online. In 2001, with companies scrambling to jump on the bandwagon, market research company IDC wildly predicted that the global e-learning market would be worth $23 billion by 2004. Most of the companies that raced into that market ended up tripping over themselves in the rush to make money.... Yet e-learning now appears set for a second, more modest surge. According to a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development last year, more than half of managers are now involved in some sort of e-learning.

 



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