Western Europe is the world’s second largest buying region for E-Learning products and services after North America. This is set to change in the upcoming forecasted period.
Asia is predicted to outspend Western Europe in E-Learning terms by 2016. “Despite being a mature market, 2013 was nevertheless a transitional year for E-Learning in Western Europe.
We can put aside the buzz about MOOCs in higher education and all the noise about a coming shift to mobile. “For those of us who focus on workplace learning, the interesting shift is the number of small and medium sized businesses that have started to adopt sophisticated learning technologies.
With the pricing structure of products such as Docebo, suddenly smaller companies are realizing that there is a very low barrier to entry for them to have enterprisegrade capability in this area.
“The other trend we’ve observed, from the larger corporations in our client base, is a shift to outsourcing the development of E-Learning content to professional agencies rather than building in-house.
We’re excited about the landscape for 2014.” Guy McEvoy, Managing Director, Guykat.