Figuring e-learning out
By Bob Little (February 2010 Issue)
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Learning Light has recently done what others have had neither the courage nor the hubris to do. It has dared to provide an answer to the perennial question: what is the size and value of the UK’s e-learning sector?
The Sheffield-based centre of excellence in the use of e-learning and learning technologies in the workplace acknowledges in its report, The UK e-learning market 2009, that it has always been difficult to estimate the overall size of the UK e-learning market – principally because companies such as Accenture and IBM don’t separate e-learning from other revenues in their financial reporting and, in some cases, outsource elements of their e-learning to boutique providers, thus providing a risk of double-counting. Furthermore, many e-learning companies are privately owned, registered in the UK but owned overseas, or their revenues fall below the Companies House threshold.
The Sheffield-based centre of excellence in the use of e-learning and learning technologies in the workplace acknowledges in its report, The UK e-learning market 2009, that it has always been difficult to estimate the overall size of the UK e-learning market – principally because companies such as Accenture and IBM don’t separate e-learning from other revenues in their financial reporting and, in some cases, outsource elements of their e-learning to boutique providers, thus providing a risk of double-counting. Furthermore, many e-learning companies are privately owned, registered in the UK but owned overseas, or their revenues fall below the Companies House threshold.
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