According to a survey conducted in 2022, ** percent of students in higher education agreed that the quality of online instruction in higher education is the same as the quality of in-person instruction in the United States, while ** percent said that the quality was worse.

Like other sub-sectors in the education app market, skills and online training courses experienced significant growth at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, as many people lost jobs or were...

During a survey conducted in Spring 2023 in the United States, the most popular factor for choosing online education was the affordability of the program, with ** percent of respondents reporting this as one of their top three reasons. The second most popular factor was the reputation of the school or program.

The online higher education market is experiencing robust growth, fueled by increasing accessibility, affordability demands, and technological advancements. The market's Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 19.82% from 2019 to 2024 suggests a significant expansion, likely driven by factors such as the rising adoption of online learning platforms, flexible learning options catering to working professionals and geographically dispersed students, and the increasing recognition of online degrees by employers. The market segmentation, encompassing diverse types of online programs (e.g., bachelor's, master's, certificate programs) and applications across various fields (e.g., business, technology, healthcare), contributes to its broad appeal and expansion. Major players like American Public Education, Adtalem Global Education, and others are deploying competitive strategies focused on enhancing the learning experience, improving student support services, and expanding their program offerings to maintain a competitive edge. The geographic distribution indicates strong growth across North America and Asia-Pacific, driven by higher internet penetration and a growing young population seeking educational opportunities. However, challenges remain, including concerns about the perceived quality of online education compared to traditional institutions, the digital divide limiting access for certain demographics, and the need for continuous investment in technology and curriculum development to meet evolving learner needs. Looking ahead to 2033, the online higher education market is projected to maintain significant momentum, further expanding its reach and influence. Continued technological innovation, including advancements in virtual reality and artificial intelligence, will enhance the learning experience and attract a broader range of students. The growing importance of lifelong learning and upskilling will also drive demand for online courses and degree programs. Competitive pressures will likely lead to further innovation in pricing models, program offerings, and marketing strategies, fostering a dynamic and evolving market landscape. To fully capitalize on this growth, educational institutions must prioritize creating engaging and effective online learning environments, addressing concerns around quality and accessibility, and adapting to the ever-changing needs of students in a globally competitive market.

In 2022, **** percent of higher education students in the United States were taking exclusively distance learning courses. A further **** percent of students were taking at least some distance learning courses. For both of these groups, this is a decrease from the previous year, demonstrating the declining impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2022

In 2020, 58 percent of internet users in the United Kingdom (UK) aged between 16 and 24 used the internet to take part in online learning activities. Among 25-to-34-year-olds this share decreased to 36 percent. Among the other age groups, 55-to-64-years-olds were least likely do take part in online learning activities. Overall, the share of people using the internet for this purpose increased since 2015. The European questionnaire on Information and Communication Technologies Data reveals a disparity between the internet usage among different age groups. This disparity, although present in most countries, differs widely in its severity.

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Introduction

E-Learning Statistics: In today’s fast-moving digital world, e-learning has become a key tool for businesses and people who want to keep improving and growing. E-learning is convenient, easy to access, and flexible, making it a game-changer for traditional education. It’s now an essential resource for staying competitive and adaptable in various industries.

Before the global COVID-19 pandemic, online learning was already starting to show up in schools, from elementary through university, as well as in corporate training. Both students and teachers liked the flexibility it offered to everyone taking part in the lessons.

Don't worry; we've put together a list of important E-Learning Statistics for 2024, bringing together the most useful insights in one handy place.

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Distance Learning Market Size 2024-2028

The distance learning market size is forecast to increase by USD 149.23 billion at a CAGR of 9.65% between 2023 and 2028.

The growing demand for distance learning, fueled by the continuous development of technology, is a key driver of the distance learning market. As technology improves, online education becomes more accessible, engaging, and effective, allowing students to learn remotely with ease. The integration of advanced tools such as video conferencing, AI-driven assessments, and interactive content is further enhancing the appeal of distance learning.
In North America, the market is experiencing significant growth due to the integration of advanced technologies and shifting educational preferences. With a growing emphasis on flexible, personalized learning experiences, including self-paced e-learning, institutions are increasingly offering distance learning programs that cater to diverse student needs. This trend is expected to continue, contributing to the market's expansion in the region.

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The market is experiencing significant growth due to the increasing adoption of remote learning solutions among K-12 students and higher education students. Online assessments, video conferencing sessions, and virtual schools are becoming popular flexible education options for students who require flexibility in their learning schedules. Website-based mediums and application-based mediums, such as e-learning platforms, are increasingly being used to deliver educational programs. Internet access is essential for distance learning, making online learning platforms an indispensable tool for universities and colleges.

Market Segmentation

The market research report provides comprehensive data (region-wise segment analysis), with forecasts and estimates in 'USD Billion' for the period 2024-2028, as well as historical data from 2018 - 2022 for the following segments.

Type

  Traditional
  Online


Method

  Synchronous distance learning
  Asynchronous distance learning


Geography

  North America

    Canada
    US


  Europe

    Germany
    UK


  APAC

    China


  Middle East and Africa



  South America

By Type Insights

The traditional segment is estimated to witness significant growth during the forecast period. The market encompasses various methods and technologies, including gamification, personalized learning pathways, educational environments, and remote learning techniques. Traditional distance learning, characterized by asynchronous online courses, pre-recorded lecture books, and minimal instructor interaction, remains a significant revenue contributor. This approach caters to a broad audience, particularly those with limited access to digital devices or high-internet connectivity. Academic institutions and the government sector continue to offer traditional distance learning programs, such as those provided by the Open University in the UK via mail. However, corporate blended learning, online education solutions, and personalized learning solutions are gaining popularity due to their interactive and technologically advanced nature.

These methods include learning management systems, virtual classrooms, mobile e-learning platforms, and cloud-based e-Learning platforms. Moreover, the use of intranet connection, computers, tutorials, podcasts, recorded lectures, e-books, and machine learning technology enhances the learning experience. The market also serves academic users and corporate users through service providers and content providers. The increasing literacy rate, internet penetration, and the need for continuous skill upgrading further fuel the market's growth.

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The traditional segment accounted for USD 152.29 billion in 2018 and showed a gradual increase during the forecast period.

Regional Insights

North America is estimated to contribute 34% to the growth of the global market during the forecast period. Technavio's analysts have elaborately explained the regional trends and drivers that shape the market during the forecast period.

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The market in North America is experiencing significant growth due to the integration of advanced technologies and shifting educational preferences. With the rise of gamification, personalized learning pathways, and educational environments, online education solutions have become increasingly popular. Academic institutions and the government sector are expanding their digital services, offering distance learning programs through Learning Management Systems and cloud-based e-Learning platforms. Remote learning methods, such as pre-recorded lectures, tutorials

The six data sets were created for an undergraduate course at the Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, held for second year students in the autumn semester. The course is taught both in Romanian and English with the same content and evaluation rules in both languages. The six data sets are the following: - FirstCaseStudy_RO_traditional_2019-2020.txt - contains data about the grades from the 2019-2020 academic year (when traditional face-to-face teaching method was used) for the Romanian language - FirstCaseStudy_RO_online_2020-2021.txt - contains data about the grades from the 2020-2021 academic year (when online teaching was used) for the Romanian language - SecondCaseStudy_EN_traditional_2019-2020.txt - contains data about the grades from the 2019-2020 academic year (when traditional face-to-face teaching method was used) for the English language - SecondCaseStudy_EN_online_2020-2021.txt - contains data about the grades from the 2020-2021 academic year (when online teaching was used) for the English language - ThirdCaseStudy_Both_traditional_2019-2020.txt - the concatenation of the two data sets for the 2019-2020 academic year (so all instances from FirstCaseStudy_RO_traditional_2019-2020 and SecondCaseStudy_EN_traditional_2019-2020 together) - ThirdCaseStudy_Both_online_2020-2021.txt - the concatenation of the two data sets for the 2020-2021 academic year (so all instances from FirstCaseStudy_RO_online_2020-2021 and SecondCaseStudy_EN_online_2020-2021 together)Instances from the data sets for the 2019-2020 academic year contain 12 attributes (in this order): - the grades received by the student for 7 laboratory assignments that were presented during the semester. For assignments that were not turned in a grade of 0 was given. Possible values are between 0 and 10 - the grades received by the student for 2 practical exams. If a student did not participate in a practical exam, de grade was 0. Possible values are between 0 and 10. - the number of seminar activities that the student had. Possible values are between 0 and 7. - the final grade the student received for the course. It is a value between 4 and 10. - the category of the final grade: - E for grades 10 or 9 - G for grades 8 or 7 - S for grades 6 or 5 - F for grade 4Instances from the data sets for the 2020-2021 academic year contain 10 attributes (in this order): - the grades received by the student for 7 laboratory assignments that were presented during the semester. For assignments that were not turned in a grade of 0 was given. Possible values are between 0 and 10 - a seminar bonus computed based on the number of seminar activities the student had during the semester, which was added to the final grade. Possible values are between 0 and 0.5. - the final grade the student received for the course. It is a value between 4 and 10. - the category of the final grade: - E for grades 10 or 9 - G for grades 8 or 7 - S for grades 6 or 5 - F for grade 4

Please cite the following paper when using this dataset:

N. Thakur, “A Large-Scale Dataset of Twitter Chatter about Online Learning during the Current COVID-19 Omicron Wave,” Journal of Data, vol. 7, no. 8, p. 109, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.3390/data7080109

Abstract

The COVID-19 Omicron variant, reported to be the most immune evasive variant of COVID-19, is resulting in a surge of COVID-19 cases globally. This has caused schools, colleges, and universities in different parts of the world to transition to online learning. As a result, social media platforms such as Twitter are seeing an increase in conversations, centered around information seeking and sharing, related to online learning. Mining such conversations, such as Tweets, to develop a dataset can serve as a data resource for interdisciplinary research related to the analysis of interest, views, opinions, perspectives, attitudes, and feedback towards online learning during the current surge of COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant. Therefore this work presents a large-scale public Twitter dataset of conversations about online learning since the first detected case of the COVID-19 Omicron variant in November 2021. The dataset is compliant with the privacy policy, developer agreement, and guidelines for content redistribution of Twitter and the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) principles for scientific data management.

Data Description

The dataset comprises a total of 52,984 Tweet IDs (that correspond to the same number of Tweets) about online learning that were posted on Twitter from 9th November 2021 to 13th July 2022. The earliest date was selected as 9th November 2021, as the Omicron variant was detected for the first time in a sample that was collected on this date. 13th July 2022 was the most recent date as per the time of data collection and publication of this dataset.

The dataset consists of 9 .txt files. An overview of these dataset files along with the number of Tweet IDs and the date range of the associated tweets is as follows. Table 1 shows the list of all the synonyms or terms that were used for the dataset development.

Filename: TweetIDs_November_2021.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 1283, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: November 1, 2021 to November 30, 2021)

Filename: TweetIDs_December_2021.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 10545, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: December 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021)

Filename: TweetIDs_January_2022.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 23078, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: January 1, 2022 to January 31, 2022)

Filename: TweetIDs_February_2022.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 4751, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: February 1, 2022 to February 28, 2022)

Filename: TweetIDs_March_2022.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 3434, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: March 1, 2022 to March 31, 2022)

Filename: TweetIDs_April_2022.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 3355, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: April 1, 2022 to April 30, 2022)

Filename: TweetIDs_May_2022.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 3120, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: May 1, 2022 to May 31, 2022)

Filename: TweetIDs_June_2022.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 2361, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: June 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022)

Filename: TweetIDs_July_2022.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 1057, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: July 1, 2022 to July 13, 2022)

The dataset contains only Tweet IDs in compliance with the terms and conditions mentioned in the privacy policy, developer agreement, and guidelines for content redistribution of Twitter. The Tweet IDs need to be hydrated to be used. For hydrating this dataset the Hydrator application (link to download and a step-by-step tutorial on how to use Hydrator) may be used.

Table 1. List of commonly used synonyms, terms, and phrases for online learning and COVID-19 that were used for the dataset development

Terminology

List of synonyms and terms

COVID-19

Omicron, COVID, COVID19, coronavirus, coronaviruspandemic, COVID-19, corona, coronaoutbreak, omicron variant, SARS CoV-2, corona virus

online learning

online education, online learning, remote education, remote learning, e-learning, elearning, distance learning, distance education, virtual learning, virtual education, online teaching, remote teaching, virtual teaching, online class, online classes, remote class, remote classes, distance class, distance classes, virtual class, virtual classes, online course, online courses, remote course, remote courses, distance course, distance courses, virtual course, virtual courses, online school, virtual school, remote school, online college, online university, virtual college, virtual university, remote college, remote university, online lecture, virtual lecture, remote lecture, online lectures, virtual lectures, remote lectures

The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it not only sanitary challenges, but also social and economic difficulties on a global scale. The provision of means for students to keep on with their education despite the multiple social distancing restrictions is one of them. In this context, online learning has become a very useful alternative. Among ** Latin American and Caribbean countries analyzed in 2020, the most commonly used distance learning tool was online learning, implemented by ** countries in the region. In comparison, less than ** countries evaluated delivered devices or provided students with live online classes. Alternatives to online education Although online education has been the most chosen learning delivery system in Latin America and the Caribbean during the pandemic, a considerable part of the population in the region has little to no access to the internet or to digital learning tools. As a result, other creative ways of providing learning resources have been adopted. A good example of this has been the broadcasting of educational programs via television and radio. In Mexico, for instance, the program “Aprende en Casa” was launched at the beginning of the 2020/2021 scholar year to air educational content for each school level throughout the day. Digitalization in schools pre COVID-19 pandemic One of the characteristics of digitalization in Latin American schools, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, has been the evident inequalities among institutions and students. These disparities are present in multiple areas and vary not only between countries, but also within them. Uruguay, for instance, having one of the largest shares of pupils with an effective online learning support platform in the region, was also among the Latin American countries with the lowest share of students whose teachers were prepared to integrate digital devices to education.

The results show that online learning is considered less effective by students in remote areas; this happens because the communication network and infrastructure do not support them to follow online learning. After conducting this research, the assumptions about the displeasure or reduced effectiveness of online learning in this area proved correct and significant.

Subject: EducationSpecific: Online Learning and FunType: Questionnaire survey data (csv / excel)Date: February - March 2020Content: Students' views about online learning and fun Data Source: Project OLAFValue: These data provide students' beliefs about how learning occurs and correlations with fun. Participants were 206 students from the OU

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Online learning (e-learning) course enrolment totals by course and year for public and Catholic schools. School boards report this data using the Ontario School Information System (OnSIS). Includes: * course code * course name * online learning course enrolment totals by year Enrolment totals include withdrawn or dropped courses. A student enrolled in more than one course is counted for each course. Data excludes private schools and Education and Community Partnership Program (ECPP) facilities. Not all courses offered by school boards are available to students via online learning. Cells are suppressed in categories with less than 10 students. Enrolment totals are rounded to the nearest five. Final as of October 4, 2024