Post-secondary institutions are scaling up their Internet infrastructure to enhance learning communities and increase student access to curriculum. U.S. home access to the Internet has rapidly increased from 14.9 million households in 1995 to 46.5 million today, and is projected to grow to 90 million in five years. Among those households is the market of some 1.23 million home schooled children. While most web-based training is now in information technology, that is expected to evolve to include more soft skills. From the perspective of companies helping to facilitate learning via the Internet or providing online educational content, these figures represent a snapshot of the overall market from a predominantly American perspective.
Similar opportunities exist worldwide.
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