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Many eLearning researchers and practitioners feel the evidence is substantial enough to declare that online learning works and the field must move on to more important questions
ELearning has shown to result in effective learning experience for students although there is a need to find methods to reduce the learning curve and workload of faculty. We also need to better understand the value-added that higher bandwidth networks and new software and hardware technologies will provide to learning.
While access to new student markets has not been widely demonstrated, it is still early in eLearning’s development and program offerings are limited. Today’s growth and profitability expectations, as in many industries, are more inline with reality.
The hope is that the pioneering efforts of university faculty and staff will garner the attention of their colleagues and university administrators who will recognize, support, and spread these innovations across faculties.

‘The ‘battle’ for students - the ugly word is customers - is just beginning. Institutions of learning which do not have merchandising skills are as handicapped as a golfer without a sand wedge. Staying on the leader board of education, and keeping the corporate snouts out of our tent, means learning to use some of their tools.’ [john hibbs, 2002]