ASIAN E-LEARNING

BY MARK ROWETHE SCHOOL textbook and related academic reading material has been a traditionally lucrative and never-ending market for publishers. But the growing phenomenon of e-learning is opening up new dimensions in this field across the globe.The reason is the sheer scale of future need for education in developing regions, particularly in Asia where the potential numbers of higher education students is staggering. By 2020 China will need 20 million university places and by 2015 India will struggle to supply nine million university places. Education analysts ...


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