Survey on e-Learning and Learning Management System Use In Non-Profits...

LearnSomething and N-TEN groups released a study about e-Learning and learning management system use in non-profit and associations. 

 3rd Annual Nonprofit E-learning Survey Report Released

Here are some highlights:

• The general upward trend in adoption of e-learning throughout the nonprofit sector has continued. From 2004 to 2006, the percentage of all survey respondents indicating current usage of e-learning grew from 40 to 53 percent. Among 501(c)(3) organizations, the percentage grew from 36 to 51 percent; among membership associations, from 40 to 55 percent; and among educational institutions, from 49 to 58 percent.

• Training budgets have increased somewhat. Slightly more than 56 percent of survey respondents indicated their organization's general budget for training and education will increase in the coming year--nearly a 12 percent jump over 2005. Approximately 4 percent of respondents indicated an increase in spending specific to e-learning in the coming year.

• Use of facilitated and blended e-learning formats may be on the rise. While use or planned use of the most popular e-learning format, self-paced e-learning, continued to grow in 2006, survey responses also indicate rising interest in asynchronous facilitated, live facilitated, and blended (a combination of classroom and online formats) e-learning approaches. The number of respondents indicating they are using or plan to use asynchronous facilitated or live facilitated e-learning rose approximately 7 percent and 6 percent, respectively, from 2005. Those indicating they are using or planning to use a blended learning approach rose approximately 17 percent.

• The importance of learning management systems (LMS) continues to grow. The percentage of respondents indicating usage of an LMS more than doubled from 2005, and the percentage of respondents indicating that they do not know what an LMS is dropped by nearly 20 percent. Additionally, the number of respondents who indicated that integration between an LMS and other popular types of nonprofit-oriented software would be either highly or somewhat valuable rose from approximately 53 to 67 percent.

2006 Nonprofit and Association E-learning Survey - Report Summary

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Dave Boggs
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