How big will E-Learning be?

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Let's face it - most activities online are a waste of time...I limit my PC time during exam phase (lets not go into detail how I do that ;-)), and am actually kind of glad, I'm not wasting time googling unnecessary things, checking e-mails way too often, etc..

However, e-learning seems to be one of the activities online, that can be extremely useful (not a waste of time).

That just made me wonder - How big will this e-learning thing be in the future? What's your take?

[AussieWebmaster]

elearning will grow really big... teachers use for lecture notes.. labs etc etc

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Interesting, thanks for the input!

Ive always had a passion for (self-)learning (e.g. I taught myself to speak fluent English & French in my late teens using basically nothing but the internet (without going abroad))...and enjoy helping people who are learning a foreign language that I know just as much (so it's not just the learning part of it that's fun to me)..so now I'm wondering if that might turn out to be a really interesting field for me in the future.

Do you think there'll be lots of SEO/Online Marketing/analytics kind of work to be done in the e-learning field?

Or will e-learning be mostly free content (to drive links,etc.) without there being enough profit to be made by companies?
(I'm particularly interested in the language learning field, of course, but not exclusively)

thanks for any input!

[jag]

E-learning is a well growing field. I have also noticed few social networking sites for e-learning related to languages and other.
As always knowing non-english lanuages is an added advantage for SEO.

There are few sites that offers "SEO for e-learning" Google for it.

Best,

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

thanks jag...yeah Ive seen those, too

Back in the day when I was learning languages there was mylanguageexchangeDOTcom

and now other sites are using the same concept (livemocha,etc. I think).

It seems like languages specifically would not be a great niche for E-Learning as a lot of that kind of content will probably be free (livemocha is free and capturing a ton of market share - 3,5 million registered users i read...and creating lots of content doing crowdsourcing, thus low cost)...and players in that market will try to monetize it otherwise - remains to be seen if they can pull it off successfully, of course..

[jag]

Hope you won't mind me teaching German?

Any short cuts ;)

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

No, absolutely not jag! :-)

Here's my systematic approach to learning a foreign language which should apply to German, too:

1. You should learn basic grammar and the most common 3,000 words (which account for 98% of the words in an everyday conversation) using online resources and a keyword density tool ;-)

2. Now you'll realize that even though you are almost fluent in the written aspect of the language, your listening comprehension lags behind big time.

Solution: You get yourself a German girlfriend --> This one is killer for improving your listening comprehension skills ;-)

[jag]

Great. Hope these helps readers.

Short solution: Is there anybody that you can introduce?, just kidding lol ;)

Best,