Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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Soars Spending for E-Learning MOBILE LEARNING, E-LEARNING DE- VELOPMENT AND SOCIAL LEARNING NETWORKS LEAD ADOPTION BY JOE DIDONATO U.S. corporations appear to be spending loads more for enterprise-wide e-learning initiatives and implementation this year. Total expenditures per company extrapo- late to $3.50 milion versus $1.46 million in 2011 — an increase of 240 percent. Tis anomaly presents itself even though average learning budgets in the corporate sector remain relatively flat at $4.75 mil- lion versus $4.90 million in 2011. Te mes- sage is clear that organizations are being asked to do more with the same dollars, and learning executives in the corporate sector are rising to that challenge. Statistics come from a June, 2012, Web- based survey conducted by Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines. More than 600 organizations responded, includ- ing 145 from the public sector — all of which have an active or planned e-learning initiative . Conversely, the public sector records a 19 percent drop in total learning expendi- tures over 2011 levels (but an increase of more than 233 percent from 2010). In the public sector, organizations re- ported annual e-learning investments of $7 million, down 19 percent from 2011 but still up 233 percent from 2010 investment levels. Te average organization size grew to 33,990 from last year's 30,421, which means that less is planned to be spent on individual learners: approximately $205 per learner in 2012, down from $274 per learner in 2011. Government Elearning! July / August 2012 15