20 Facts About the Impact of E-Learning [#Infographic]

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"The online-learning market is on track to reach $37.8B globally by 2020." according to D. Frank Smith, social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazine websites.

Online learning has become one of the fastest-growing industries in education technology, and it’s not slowing down anytime soon.

The availability of mobile devices on campuses has drastically changed the playing field for e-learning. By 2020, the global mobile-learning market is on track to reach $37.8 billion, according to a new infographic from TalentLMS, a learning management system. By 2019, half of all college students will be enrolled in online courses.

"This means that the development costs of eLearning courses will diminish with time, boiling down to only the cost of the student. With the cheaper rates at which mobile broadband data is available, 74 percent of eLearners will be mobile learners," according to a March 2 blog post from TalentLMS.

Online learning is also changing the culture of learning itself.
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Source: EdTech Magazine: Focus on Higher Education