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Online learning has shown significant growth over the last decade, as the internet and education combine to ... people with the opportunity to gain new skills. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, online learning has become more centric in our lives. The pandemic has ... schools, universities, and companies to remote working and online learning grew up. Even before the pandemic, Research and Markets forecast the online education market as $350 Billion by 2025.
... universities are also democratizing learning by making courses ... accessible online. Stanford University and Harvard University give access to online education under categories of computer science, engineering, mathematics, business, art, and personal development.
These all show one thing - a great demand from people to learn online. The reason for the demand and rapid growth of the market with a wide variety of platform options for different groups of people may be the speedy change of the world. At the recent $50 million round of Udemy, president Darren Shimkus says, “The biggest challenge is for learners is to figure out what skills are emerging, what they can do to ... best in the global market. We live in a world that’s changing so quickly that skills that were valued just three or four years ago are no longer ... . People are confused and do not know what they should be learning.”
At this moment, online learning is becoming a catalyzer for people and companies to help the adoption of this rapid change in the world.
Machine learning algorithms use pattern recognition which can ... the content for each individual. For example, when a student repeatedly struggles with a concept at the course, and the platform can adjust the e-learning content to provide more detailed information to help the student.
The fact is that online learning is the future and will undoubtedly replace land-based learning in the future. Machine learning has given personalized solutions to the course content by using big data. It will not be surprising to see more elements in the online learning structure such as VR/AR and more advanced machine learning processes to democratize learning.
\(Ilker Koksal, Forbes\)