Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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Editor'sNote Welcome to the 5th Annual Industry Fact Book SPENDING ON THE RISE IN U.S. AND GLOBAL E-LEARNING MARKETS E very year Elearning! Media Group publishes new primary research on key sectors of the $160 billion learning and workplace technology industry. Inside this issue, we are pleased to present the fndings of our own E-learning User Study: Public & Private Sectors (pg 22), the 2013 Learning & Talent Management Buying Study (pg 30), and in partner- ship with Aberdeen Group, an excerpt from the Learning & Performance Study on video learning trends (pg 35). Tese results are exclusively published in the 2013 Annual Fact Book edition of Elearning! and Government Elearning! Magazines. You will also fnd two new contributors to the 2013 Fact Book. IBIS Capital, an investment group in the United Kingdom, has shared their research on Global E-learning (pg 28). IBIS estimates the Corporate Global Learning market is $200 billion strong, and that mobile learning will reach $38 billion by 2020. McKinsey & Company closes the Fact Book with research on "Te Business Value of Social Technologies" (pg 38). Is there $1.3 trillion dollars waiting to be tapped in your industry? MORE GOOD NEWS AND SOME BAD. Te good news is that e-learning and learning technology investments are growing. Strong investments are being made in enabling technologies like learning and talent management systems, social collaboration and mobile, video and virtual learning. Te bad news is these new technologies are transforming learning and we are only at the beginning of this exciting evolution. We invite you to share these fndings with your colleagues and download the studies at www.2elearning.com under Resource Center. Our partners' research is also available at the URL in the featured articles. Tank you to all of you who participated in the research, and those who will in the future. —Jerry Roche, Editorial Director —Catherine Upton, Group Publisher 10 April / May 2013 Elearning!