Megaprovider

From Researching Virtual Initiatives in Education

A Megaprovider is a term coined by the MegaTrends project for a project which conforms to concrete and measurable indicators of the critical mass required for a "European Mega e-learning Provider" in the following four dimensions:

1. an e-learning system with more than 5000 enrolments per year or
2. an e-learning system with more than 100 courses on offer on any one time.
3. the project focuses only on distance learning situations, which means that that courses should be included only if designed for and aimed at distance (off campus) students
4. and at least 50 percent is normally provided as e-learning (the provision of some e-learning modules in forms of blended learning by face-to-face institutions for their on-campus students is not the focus of this project)

Note that e-learning programmes offered by multinational corporations to their European employees (often from a base in the United States of America) conformant to these requirements.

There is a list of Megaproviders by country at http://nettskolen.nki.no/in_english/megatrends/nominated.html#Country

Note that only providers offering some higher education provision fall within the scope of Re.ViCa.

See also Major E-Learning Initiative.

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