Victorian eLearning Network

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The Victorian Government has an innovative eLearning industry development initiative, World Class Business - Growing Victoria's eLearning Industry designed to support and promote the eLearning industry in Victoria. It aims to consolidate and extend the capabilities of Victoria's eLearning industry and to capitalise on the State's enormous eLearning potential.

Industry background



Size of Victoria's eLearning industry
Approximately 150 firms - mainly Australian owned SMEs
Employment in Victoria's eLearning industry
Around 1500 people (approximately 2.5% of total Victorian ICT employment)
Global corporate eLearning market
Expected to reach US$10-20 billion globally by 2007 much of this concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region.
Source: The Whitehorse Group

In December 2003 Whitehorse Strategic Group Ltd was commissioned to conduct a survey of Victoria's eLearning industry. eLearning survey summary of findings 2002 - 2003 PDF (2 pages, 29Kb).

Victorian eLearning Industry Association



The eLearning Industry Association of Victoria was officially launched in October 2006 to provide a focused voice for both the industry and consumers of eLearning, at a local, national and international level.

Vendors of both systems and content to the eLearning market, corporations using elearning to achieve their training outcomes, K-12 digital publishers, TAFE institutions, tertiary education providers offering elearning and producers creating elearning for the corporate, public sector and educational markets are invited to join the association.

Further queries can be emailed to president@elearning.org.au

Victoria's eLearning Strategy
World Class Business: Growing Victoria's eLearning Industry



The Government's strategy to grow the eLearning industry was launched in 2004. Highlights of the strategy include:

  • Creating economies of scale by promoting collaboration in the eLearning sector
  • Stimulating local demand by raising awareness and improving infrastructure that supports eLearning
  • Improving global competitiveness with international standards and facilitating access to overseas markets.

eLearning Strategy publication

Contact us for further information:



Assistant Director, ICT Investment and Business Development
Multimedia Victoria
Tel: 61 3 9655 1000
Email:
elearning@mmv.vic.gov.au

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