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By 2006, 3. 5 million students were participating in on-line learning at institutions of higher education in the United States.

According to the Sloan Foundation reports, there has been an increase of around 12 – 14 percent per year on average in enrollments for fully online learning over the five years 2004 – 2009 in the US post-secondary system, compared with an average of approximately 2 per cent increase per year in enrollments overall.

Allen and Seaman ( 2009 ) claim that almost a quarter of all students in post-secondary education were taking fully online courses in 2008, and a report by Ambient Insight Research suggests that in 2009, 44 percent of post-secondary students in the USA were taking some or all of their courses online, and projected that this figure would rise to 81 percent by 2014.

Thus it can be seen that e-learning is moving rapidly from the margins to being a predominant form of post-secondary education, at least in the USA.