November 2000

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November 2000
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The ability to instruct from afar is hardly new
As early as the mid 1800s, correspondence schools
in Europe were teaching shorthand and Foreign
Languages by mail.   In the last century, radio,
television, and satellite broadcasting equipped
distance learning with new methods of delivery.
  The global connectivity of the Internet and a
new generation of hardware and software
applications underpin the teaching of courses
over the Web
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• By almost any measure, e-learning is booming.
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• According to a recent U.S. government report, the
  demand for e-learning is likely to leap from just
  5 of all students in higher education in 1998 to
  15 by 2002.
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• In the corporate sector, spending on employee
  training last year totalled 2.5 billion, about
  40 of which went to on-line education.
• Industry e-training is projected to double
  annually over the next several years.
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• The academic on-line market is also expected to
  move ahead rapidly, reaching nearly 1.6 billion
  by 2002. What many educators are realizing is
  that e-learning is a trend they can no longer
  ignore.

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• Most popular e-learning packages
• Blackboard's Courseinfo (http//www.blackboard
  .com)
• - on-line course mananagement system that uses
  templates.
• Lotus LearningSpace
• (http//www.lotus.com/h
  ome.nsf/welcome/learnspace)
• - targeted at corporate users
• - sold through IBM Corp.'s e-learning
  business unit,
• IBM Mindspan Solutions.
• WebCT (http//www.webct.com)
• - low cost asynchronous course
  delivery and management
• system developed at the University
  of British Columbia,
• Vancouver, B.C., Canada
• - sold through Universal Learning
  Technology, Peabody, Mass
• Topclass by WBT Systems, Waltham, Mass.
• (http//www.wbtsystem
  s.com)
• - the most mature product on the
  market.

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• Customized e-learning platforms for colleges
• and training organizations
• DigitalThink (http//www.digitalthink.com)
• Convene (http//www.convene.com)
• eCollege (http//www.ecollege.com)

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