The Epoch Times has published an interesting article on eLearning in their early September edition. You can read the full article here, but I wanted to highlight a few key points I found interesting.

• (University) professors went from just posting a course syllabus to podcasting lectures and now 85 percent of students (at the University of Cincinnati) use it in at least one of their courses.
• The renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers 1900 courses on everything from Chinese to the Aerodynamics of Viscous Fluids through MIT Open Courseware.
• In the 2007-2008 school year, 23,000 (Ontario) students registered in online classes.
• Patricia MacNeil, a spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of Education which funds e-Learning Ontario, says the province will be investing $6 million in e-learning for K-12 in the 2009-2010 school year.
• Tanya Blazina, a spokesperson for the Ontario's Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities says the province will invest $2.5 million this year to open 12 new e-learning network centres and to support five centres already up and running in southern and eastern Ontario.

Another interesting comment was that "some software can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to license and support. [...] There are free, open-source alternatives like Moodle that can fill the role for a fraction of the price for schools willing to roll up their sleeves and read the self-help tech forums." Haven't these guys ever heard of Dual Code Inc.?