E-Learning market potential in the German IT sector. An explorative study

During the past few years, eLearning has been an extremely fast growing market. In the course of the project CORONET (Corporate Software Engineering Knowledge Networks for Improved Training of the Work Force), which is a European Union funded project (No. IST-1999-11634), a market survey of the German eLearning market in the Information Technology and Software Engineering domain was conducted. This report presents the major findings of the explorative study, in which a total of 3,400 German IT companies was asked to describe their usage of, demand for, and benefits seen in methods and tools for eLearning. The market survey concludes that market (and therefore customer) demands will be headed towards a different focus in the future: moving away from "plain" eLearning tool support towards process integration for eLearning. The CORONET products CORONET-Train and WBT-Master offer support for both aspects of eLearning, i. e. tool support and process integration.