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Learning Light Ltd
Sheffield Technology Parks, Suite 21, Cooper Buildings, Sheffield S1
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3rd July 2014
Learning Light publishes E-learning Industry Report
The UK's online learning technologies market is still the largest in
Europe - but only just
The UK's online learning technologies market totalled some £565m in
2012/13, according to research by market analysts Learning Light -
an organisation which also helps organisations improve their
business performance via e-learning and learning technologies.
Learning Light's latest report - called 'A Review of the E-learning
Market in Europe and beyond, 2013/14' - sets out the size and state
of the online learning technologies markets in 20 European
countries, including the UK. It also examines the market for online
learning technologies in China.
This report updates similar market analyses published by Learning
Light in 2007 and 2009 - although the 2013/14 report is the first
one to study the Chinese market.
Learning Light - which regularly carries out specific research and
market analysis relating to the e-learning and corporate online
learning markets for clients including organisations seeking
investment and/or specific advice about this market; investors and
potential investors; universities and other educational bodies, as
well as national and international bodies including government
departments - conducts a great deal of international intelligence
gathering. It has fed this data into its forecasting model - which,
among other things, makes use of Statistical Package for Social
Scientists (SPSS) software - to arrive at its published figures.
The UK online learning technologies market, which is currently worth
over £560m a year is still the largest single online learning
technologies market in Europe. However, in the wake of strong market
growth by France - whose online learning technologies market has
been growing at about twice the rate of the UK's over the last four
years or so - it is now being hard-pressed to hang on to its
position as 'number one' in Europe.
At the other end of the scale, some European countries - notably
Greece and Ireland - have seen their online learning technologies
markets shrink in real terms between 2009/10 and 2012/13; while
Slovakia and Italy have experienced the largest percentage increases
in their national markets over that period.
Learning Light director, David Patterson, commented: 'This Industry
Report provides a thorough assessment of the UK's corporate
e-learning sector, identifying and analysing the key issues and
trends that affect the corporate online learning industry. And.
thanks to our previous Industry Reports, there are now comparable
figures for this sector from 2007 and 2010 to go with the current
figures from 2013.
'There are also comparable figures, now, for countries in Europe
from 2010 to 2013 - and, for the first time, the new report assesses
the size and scope of the Chinese market for online learning
technologies. As such, these series of Learning Light Reports make
essential reading for all e-learning market analysts and
commentators, as well as would-be successful entrepreneurs and
operators in this sector.'
The final section of this new report looks even further afield than
Europe by - for the first time - examining the Chinese corporate
online learning technologies (e-learning) market. This is
significant because the Chinese economy is widely thought to be
exerting an increasing influence over the world's economy.
'The growing use of e-learning in China is being fed both by an
increasing demand for knowledge management within companies and by
the increased popularity of rapid authoring tools,' said David.
'These tools are enabling companies to not only gather and then
harness internal - previously siloed - knowledge and skills but also
to then develop their own content based on these skills and
knowledge.
'Then, again, in China, state-owned enterprises are obliged, by law,
to spend 2.5% of their employees' salary bill on training,' he
added. 'Moreover, it's not uncommon for large private sector and
state-owned enterprises to recruit 10,000 new employees a year.
'All of this - along with other information contained in the
Learning Light report - suggests that there's a large and growing
market for learning as well as available budgets to provide that
learning.'
The Learning Light report - 'A Review of the E-learning Market in
Europe and beyond, 2013/14' - is available from
http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/product/review-e-learning-markets-uk-eu-china-2014/,
price £1,200 + VAT.
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About the Learning Light Industry Report
In 2007, Learning Light commissioned and published a report on the
size and value of the UK e-learning industry. This was followed, in
2009, by an updated and expanded report which contained interviews
with a number of leading players (vendors) in the industry, asking
their view of the market and further seeking to quantify the market
size. A similar - but, again, expanded and refined - process was
followed with regards to the 2014 report.
About Learning Light Ltd
Sheffield-based Learning Light, founded, in 2005, provides advice
and help to organisations using e-learning and learning technologies
to improve their business performance. It's one of the few
organisations in Europe that publishes regular research on the
e-learning market – notably publishing in-depth reports on the UK
and European e-learning markets, encompassing market size, growth
projections and technology trends.
Learning Light's research has been used widely by Governments to
inform economic policy; by universities and education
establishments; by journalists; by investors evaluating new
opportunities and by other research organisations.
Learning Light provides support for clients at all stages of an
e-learning project and also offers ready-developed e-learning
courses in a variety of topics, as well as a range of courses for
the engineering, manufacturing, waste management and recycling
sectors. It is a WAMITAB Approved Centre to deliver qualifications.
Further information from:
David Patterson/ Gill Broadhead, Learning Light, +44 (0)114 223 2442
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405
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