subject: Aarkstore Enterprise 2008 Report On China's E-learning Market [print this page] After years of development, e-learning, education on the Internet or online education has entered its "growth stage" in China. Its market scale reached RMB17.5bn in 2007, 20.7% higher than the RMB14.5bn reached in 2006. As to users, there were about 12.2 million people using online education in 2007, 25.1% higher than in 2006.
There have already been professional organizations providing e-learning services in almost every niche market, such as pre-school, primary- and middle-school, adult, senior-citizen, vocational, diploma and corporate education, and some fields have even entered their "fast-growing stage".
Pre-school E-Learning is just Begining in China
Since the government doesn't spend so much on pre-school education as a whole in China, most of the service providers in the field are private organizations. That's why their standards of running schools are so different from each other. Against that background, some innovative organizations or individuals enter the pre-school field in the form of online education. Participation of so many players would bring China's pre-school online education into a market-brewing stage in the next few years, during which new business and profit-making models would present themselves.
Traditional schools dominate in the field of primary- and middle-school education online
Primary- and middle-school education online became active in China in 2005, and the market scale reached RMB1.54bn in 2007, up by 18.5% from 2006, with the number of users increasing too. Our research shows that traditional primary and middle schools will continue to dominate in this field, and there will not be so much consolidation because of China's special educational models.
