European megaproviders of e-learning

The MegaTrend project decided to apply concrete and measurable indicators of the critical mass required for a European Mega e-learning Provider. This involves the following four dimensions:

• an e-learning system with more than 5000 enrolments per year or
• an e-learning system with more than 100 courses on offer on any one time.
• this 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 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.
• neither are the e-learning programmes offered by multinational corporations to their European employees (often from a base in the United States of America) a subject of this project.
  

The institutions are sorted by number of course enrollments in 2005 and by Country.
Megaproviders sorted by number of course enrollments

	Institution name	Country	URL	Number of course entrollments in 2005	Number of online courses	Average number of enrollments per course
1	Learn Direct	United Kingdom	www.learndirect.co.uk	400000	500	800
2	CrossKnowledge	France	www.crossknowledge.com/fr-fr	250000	300	833
3	UNED	Spain	www.uned.es	100000	500	200
4	Universitat Oberta de Catalunya	Spain	www.uoc.edu	94000	950	99
5	Open Universiteit Nederland	Netherlands	www.ou.nl	44432	270	165
6	ÉLOGOS	Spain	www.elogos.es	22700	605	37
7	Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern	Germany	www.vhb.org	20000	150	133
8	University of Liège	Belgium	www.ulg.ac.be/foreign	20000	130	154
9	Manchester Metropolitan University	United Kingdom	www.mmu.ac.uk	15000	1000	15
10	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid	Spain	www.upm.es www.gate.upm.es	14000	110	127
11	Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Spain	www.ulpgc.es	12237	450	27
12	NKI	Norway	www.nki.no	12217	470	26
13	Staffordshire University	United Kingdom	www.staffs.ac.uk	12000 enrollments from 5500 students	350	34
14	The Open University	United Kingdom	www.open.ac.uk	11000	375	29
15	Oncampus, Fachhochschule Lübeck	Germany	www.oncampus.de	9386	119	79
16	BI	Norway	nettstudier.bi.no	8500	54	157
17	Hungarian Telecom, Training and Knowledge Management Directorate	Hungary	www.oktatas.magyartelekom.hu	8000	150	53
18	The University of Leicester	United Kingdom	www.le.ac.uk	7000	1000	7
19	Scuola IaD, Università di Roma Tor Vergata	Italy	www.scuolaiad.it	5000	120	42
20	University of Tartu	Estounia	www.ut.ee	5000	135	37
21	Dennis Gabor College	Hungary	www.gdf.hu	4860	76	64
22	EDHEC Business School	France	www.edhec.com	4157 students	903	5
23	Sør-trøndelag University College	Norway	www.hist.no	2500	148	17
24	NKS	Norway	www.nks.no	2200	104	21
25	Universidade Aberta	Portugal	www.univ-ab.pt	1400	60	23
26	The University of Ulster	United Kingdom	campusone.ulster.ac.uk	1300	222	6

Megaproviders sorted by Country

Institution name	Country	URL	Number of course entrollments in 2005	Number of online courses	Average number of enrollments per course
University of Liège	Belgium	www.ulg.ac.be/foreign	20000	130	154
University of Tartu	Estounia	www.ut.ee	5000	135	37
CrossKnowledge	France	www.crossknowledge.com	250000	300	833
EDHEC Business School	France	www.edhec.com	4157 students	903	5
Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern	Germany	www.vhb.org	20000	150	133
Oncampus, Fachhochschule Lübeck	Germany	www.oncampus.de	9386	119	79
Hungarian Telecom, Training and Knowledge Management Directorate	Hungary	www.oktatas.magyartelekom.hu	8000	150	53
Dennis Gabor College	Hungary	www.gdf.hu	4860	76	64
Scuola IaD, Università di Roma Tor Vergata	Italy	www.scuolaiad.it	5000	120	42
Open Universiteit Nederland	Netherlands	www.ou.nl	44432	270	165
NKI	Norway	www.nki.no	12217	470	26
BI	Norway	nettstudier.bi.no	8500	54	157
Sør-trøndelag University College	Norway	www.hist.no	2500	148	17
NKS	Norway	www.nks.no	2200	104	21
Universidade Aberta	Portugal	www.univ-ab.pt	1400	60	23
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya	Spain	www.uoc.edu	94000	950	99
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Spain	www.ulpgc.es	12237	450	27
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid	Spain	www.upm.es www.gate.upm.es	14000	110	127
ÉLOGOS	Spain	www.elogos.es	22700	605	37
UNED	Spain	www.uned.es	100000	500	200
Learn Direct	United Kingdom	www.learndirect.co.uk	400000	500	800
Manchester Metropolitan University	United Kingdom	www.mmu.ac.uk	15000	1000	15
Staffordshire University	United Kingdom	www.staffs.ac.uk	12000 enrollments from 5500 students	350	34
The Open University	United Kingdom	www.open.ac.uk	11000	375	29
The University of Leicester	United Kingdom	www.le.ac.uk	7000	1000	7
The University of Ulster	United Kingdom	campusone.ulster.ac.uk	1300	222	6

Institutions that were nominated, but not confirmed as megaproviders

Riga Technical University, Distance Education Study Centre	Latvia	www.internet-uni.lv	5830	279	21
Universitat de Barcelona Virtual (Universitat de Barcelona)	Spain	www.ubvirtual.com	21890 students	318	???
Lund University	Sweden	www.lu.se	10000	100	100
bit media e-Learning solution	Austria	www.bitmedia.cc This data is a collection of the e-learning portals powered and operated by bit media www.lernportal.at www.bildung.at www.sbx.at	32000	126	254
CEPADE (Centro de Estudios de Postgrado de Administración de Empresas)	Spain	www.cepade.es	6000	250	24
University of Hradec Kralove	Czech Republic	www.uhk.cz	10000	150	67