Countries

Leading Their

Way in Online

Education

Online learning has become one of the major phenomenons in the

whole world. The fact that it makes learning easy and convenient for

the learners is what appeals to all the most. Especially for those, who

need to manage home, work and family and also is keen about earning

a degree, online learning works as a helping hand. However, there are

countries who have embraced online education more than others and

hence they are simply leading their ways in providing various online

degrees and new innovations for the learners.

Let us have a look at the countries who could feel the superiority of

online learning over the traditional one:

INDIA

India has a major role in incorporating online learning in its education

system. Since the past few years, India has already developed a lot of

world class educational institutions and they are becoming the

education destination for the Asia’s brightest students and also their

online programmes are slowly experiencing a lot of boost

Also, various international universities are now offering their online

courses to the students of India including MIT, Oxford and

Cambridge.

UNITED STATES

US is the most acknowledged country in accepting online education

and promoting it around the world. They have hundreds of colleges

offering online programmes and thousands of courses which are now

available online for the learners. The Sloan Consortium Research in

2011 has found that almost 6 million learners in the country are now

taking at least one of their courses online. Also, the online course

enrolments have an increase of 10% from 2010 to 2011. 65% of US

institutions believe that online learning is now a part of their future

investments.

UNITED

KINGDOM

Since 2011, online education in UK has experienced a real boost.

There has been an investment of £100 million in online education in

the country. This investment was due to the help needed to build the

brand of online education and to make it more resourceful for the

learners. The fact that there has been a rise in the overall tuition fees

in the UK universities, there has been an increased demand for online

learning in the country.

CHINA

Currently, China has almost 70 online colleges. This number will

grow with time and it has a long history of distance learning. Since

1960s, china had its share in the distance mode of education. These

courses were delivered through the television and radio. However,

now with the advent of online learning, course materials are delivered

with just a few clicks through the internet and laptops.

SOUTH KOREA

In the Asian nations, South Korea is leading the way in e-learning.

The nation has a strong growing technologically hi-tech industry.

Hence, it was easy on their part to incorporate online learning. A lot

of universities in the country have started offering their courses online

now. Students are now learning the actual benefits of online learning.

Although face-to-face university education is still valued more than

online learning, online education has slowly showed its superiority

over traditional learning.

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