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U.S. corporations appear to be spending loads more for enterprise-wide e-learning initiatives and implementation this year. Total expenditures per company extrapolate to $3.50 million versus $1.46 million in 2011 — an increase of 240 percent.
This anomaly presents itself even though average learning budgets in the corporate sector remain relatively flat at $4.75 million versus $4.90 million in 2011. The message is clear that organizations are being asked to do more with the same dollars, and learning executives in the corporate sector are rising to that challenge.
Statistics come from a June, 2012, Web-based survey conducted by Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines. More than 600 organizations responded, including 145 from the public sector — all of which have an active or planned e-learning initiative.
Conversely, the public sector records a 19 percent drop in total learning expenditures over 2011 levels (but an increase of more than 233 percent from 2010).
In the public sector, organizations reported annual e-learning investments of $7 million, down 19 percent from 2011 but still up 233 percent from 2010 investment levels. The average organization size grew to 33,990 from last year’s 30,421, which means that less is planned to be spent on individual learners: approximately $205 per learner in 2012, down from $274 per learner in 2011.
The net result is that public sector organizations had to shift their programs to
concentrate more on internal initiatives, in lieu of the extended enterprise. Of course, in the public sector, a lot of change can enter the system quickly, based on new administration directives and congressional mandates, all of which will intensify as we turn into 2013.
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Source: Elearning! Magazine
