"The successful online education must be robust and sustainable" Morten Flate Paulsen Interview
What in your opinion the most interesting feature or trend in online education these days?
Morten Flate Paulsen: As coordinator of the European Megatrends Project, identified themegatrend most evident in online education was the development of small-scaleexperiments to large scale operations. Successful online education should be robust and sustainable. I worry so much that online education has been transient, with no success and far from sustainable. Therefore, the project identified and analyzed 26megaproveedores European e-Learning to 10 initiatives prominent e-Learning, which did not achieve outstanding goals.
The 26 successful megaproveedores we analyzed had more than 100 courses andenrollments 5 000 in 2005. Representing 11 European countries included 8 distance education institutions, 13 universities and university consortia, and 5 corporate trainingproviders. From a sustainability perspective, it is worth noting that some mega onlineeducation providers have offered for over 20 years. Five of them started with e-Learning in the 80's, and 10 in the 90's. The largest supplier, Learn Direct, claimed to have 400 000enrollments in 2005. It is also interesting to note that among the six top-ranked institutionsno universities, corporate training providers only and distance education institutions.