100 Essential E-Learning Statistics for 2022 - E-Student (2023)

Coursera, an online education provider valued at well over $1 billion, is the enterprise choice of customers such as Adobe, Procter & Gamble, and L'Oreal. In 2019, they partnered with the Abu Dhabi School of Government to train 60,000 government employees in digital skills.

The global corporate e-learning market size will be worth $50 billion by 2026. With an annual growth rate of 15% from 2020 to 2026, the corporate market will be one of the biggest drivers of the e-learning industry.

90% of corporations now use e-learning compared to just 4% in 1995.

68% of employees prefer when learning takes place at the workplace.

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With corporate e-learning, IBM managers were able to learn five times more content at one-third of the cost. As a result, IBM saved $200 million, which accounted for around 30% of their previous training budget.

In some large organizations, up to 60% of total training costs are attributed solely to traveling costs.

Employees' lack of time to dedicate towards learning is the #1 challenge facing talent development today.

87% of millennials and 69% of non-millennials consider career development to be an important part of a job.

By moving from physical classrooms to corporate e-learning tools, Dow Chemical saved $34 million and reduced their training course costs from $95 per learner to $11 per learner.

On average, employees only have 24 minutes per week to spend on learning.

E-learning takes 40% to 60% less employee time than traditional learning.

Only 1% of the average workweek is dedicated to training and development.

42% of companies saw increased revenue after implementing e-learning.

E-learning motivators for employees are individual learning pace (95%) and no traveling (84%).

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ABB, a Swiss-Swedish multinational corporation, uses e-learning for up to 80% of all employee training. From 2012 to 2015, they experienced a six-fold increase in supply chain management online training.

Using corporate e-learning results in an increase of 18% in employee engagement.

Employees deliver $30 of increased productivity for every $1 invested in e-learning.

56% of employees would spend more time learning if their managers offered them courses.

On average, corporations with 10,000 or more employees invest 50% of their L&D budgets into e-learning. Companies with only 200 to 1,000 employees, on the other hand, only invest around 37%.

Shell, one of the largest oil companies in the world, has used e-learning to reduce the cost of their priciest training programs by 90%, deliver more than 12,000 virtual lessons, and save over $200 million.

82% of organizations conduct some of their compliance training online.

58% of employees prefer self-paced learning over instructor-led learning.

28% of organizations conduct absolutely all of their compliance training online.

Airbus, the world's largest airliner manufacturer as of 2019, employs 100,000 staff members across 35 countries. Through establishing an e-learning library with more than 6,900 pieces of content, Airbus managed to cut down training costs by millions of dollars. In addition to cost savings, the change had a positive effect on employee engagement and satisfaction levels.

94% of employees say that they would be more willing to stay in those corporations that prioritize and invest into employee career development.

By 2022, the global e-learning industry is projected to surpass $243 billion.

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technologies will be one of the biggest innovators of the industry during this decade.

By 2026, the global e-learning industry is projected to reach $336.98 billion.

Mobile learning (m-learning) is one of the fastest growing markets in e-learning, with an annual growth of 23%.

Digital learning is the quickest growing market in the education industry, with a whopping 900% growth since 2000.

The global Learning Management System (LMS) market is expected to reach $29 billion by 2026, with annual growth of 19.1%.

Educational institutions and corporations in the U.S continue to lead the online learning industry.

Online student enrollment in the U.S has increased for 14 years in a row, while overall college enrollment in the U.S has been declining over the last 10 years.

Between 2017 and 2022, the e-learning market in the U.S. will have increased by $6.22 billion.

59% of the U.S. market share comes from content-related e-learning products.

63% of American high school students use digital learning tools daily.

45% of American elementary school students use digital learning tools daily.

64% of American middle school students use digital learning tools on a daily basis.

The decline in college enrollment in the U.S. is expected to become worse in the late 2020s partly due to the rising costs of studies and college degrees being seen as less valuable.

99% of students taking U.S online degree programs are physically located in the U.S.

More than 30% of American students enroll in at least one online course.

20% of American online college students use solely their phones or tablets to complete all of their course-related activities.

39% of American undergraduate students consider online college-level education to be superior to classroom learning.

52% of American graduate students considered online college-level education to be better than classroom learning.

Europe is starting to embrace digital learning, with countries such as Germany and France taking center stage.

Venture capital investments into European EdTech companies increased from $70 million in 2014 to $379 million in 2018 - an increase of more than 540%.

Germany has the highest e-learning market share in Europe.

60% of kindergartens in Estonia offer IT-based learning activities. Estonia is Europe’s top nation in the latest PISA education survey.

Germany's e-learning market is growing 8.5% annually, while the German economy is growing at around 1.9%.

The average e-learning company in Europe has 25 employees and yearly turnover of €3 million.

The overall mission of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), consisting of 48 countries, is for digital learning to enhance traditional higher education, rather than to replace it.

An annual growth rate of 29% is projected for the global MOOC market from 2020 to 2025. This makes it the quickest growing market in education.

73% of students are still unaware of MOOCs.

By 2025, the global MOOC market size is expected to reach $21.4 billion.

22 of the top 25 U.S universities now offer online courses for free.

North America makes up 29.4% of the global MOOC market.

In 2019, the global MOOC market was valued at $5.16 billion.

edX is a non-profit MOOC platform created by Harvard and MIT in 2012. With 20 million users, 70 million enrollments and a high number of top-tier university partners, they have become one of the key players in the MOOC market.

67% of students use mobile devices to finish online course tasks.

Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing market for MOOCs from 2020 to 2025.

More than half of MOOC learners are educated at a degree level or above.

3.1% of students ages 5 through 17 took school-related online courses in 2016.

In the UK, MOOC completion rates are 40% for those who pass the first module.

87% of students use mobile devices to search for new online programs.

79% of MOOC learners have a Bachelor's degree or higher.

Online courses save educational institutions from $12 to $66< per credit hour. That is a difference of 3% to 50% of the average credit hour costs.

44% of learners who use MOOCs have a postgraduate degree.

There are 50 MOOC-based fully online Master's degrees available today.

Overall MOOC completion rates in the UK are less than 13%.

Udemy is a MOOC platform launched in 2010. It has 30 million students, more than 100,000 courses, and a number of high-value business customers such as Pinterest and booking.com.

E-learning can increase student retention rates by 25% to 60%.

10 of the largest educational institutions in the world enroll as much as 20% of all online students.

57% of students are assigned personal mobile devices for school use.

The new generation of schoolchildren is not only digitally adept, but also highly motivated to use online learning tools.

The number of scientific articles researching K-12 online learning is growing steadily. Rural schools are often the focus point of research, as rural areas could stand to benefit the most from successful online learning practices.

Annual growth of 12% is projected for the global market size of K-12 online tutoring from 2020 to 2025.

45% of elementary school students said that their favorite learning methods are playing digital learning games and watching online videos.

Annual growth of 7.5% is estimated for the global online K-8 education market through 2023.

13% of grade 6-12 students have trouble with doing homework due to lacking out of school Internet access.

48% of K-12 students have online classes available to them.

Using technology for collaboration is the favorite learning method for 50% of elementary school students.

46% of females and 62% of male high school students say that they are interested in learning programming.

The most common online learning materials used in K-12 classrooms are online educational videos, apps, and software.

61% of K-12 students are interested in using mobile apps for learning.

50% of K-12 teachers take professional online training classes.

72% of K-12 students use cloud-based educational collaboration tools.

52% of K-12 students consider online tutoring to be part of an ideal learning experience.

While the total number of undergraduate students has declined since 2010, the number of online students has been growing.

In a study involving 674 undergraduate and graduate students at Midwestern University, it was found that first-time students in e-learning courses may be substantially worse at effective learning than those students who are already experienced.

Overall post-secondary student enrollment is declining 1% to 2% annually. The number of students taking some or all of their courses online is growing 5% annually.

46.4% of undergraduate students taking entirely online degrees are studying either Business (17%), Computer Science (16.1%), or Health (13%).

The percentage of undergraduate students taking one or more online classes has risen from 15.6% in 2004 to 43.1% in 2016.

More than half of all nursing and criminal justice students pursue their master’s degrees either fully or partly online.

24.9% of undergraduate students taking entirely online degrees are aged 30 or older.

The percentage of undergraduate students taking entirely online degree programs has risen from 3.8% in 2008 to 10.8% in 2016.

More than 3 million students are now studying higher education fully online.

The feedback from graduate students is one of the most valuable sources of data for any educational organization.

37 postgraduate students from a Russel Group University in the UK participated in a distance learning study. The students met with a number of administrative and practical barriers, and it was found that university support is crucial for the success of a distance learning program.

The percentage of graduate students taking entirely online degree programs has risen from 6.1% in 2008 to 27.3% in 2016.

For 86% of online degree graduates, the value gained from their online degree exceeded or equaled the cost they paid for it.

The percentage of graduate students taking one or more online classes has risen from 16.5% in 2008 to 45.6% in 2016.

41.6% of graduate students who take fully online degrees are aged 30 or older.

In the UK, the completion rate for online higher education and further education is between 70% and 80%.