Middle East eLearning Market to Reach $560.7 million by 2016

SEATTLE, Dec. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The revenues for Self-paced eLearning products in the Middle East reached $378.4 million in 2011. The growth rate is 8.2% and revenues will reach $560.7 million by 2016, according to a new Ambient Insight report called, "The Middle East Market for Self-paced eLearning Products and Services: 2011-2016 Forecast and Analysis."

Forecasts for ten countries are included in this regional report: Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Oman has the highest growth rate in the region at 19.6%, followed by Lebanon, and Turkey at 16.0% and 12.9%, respectively.

"The Middle East is a vibrant eLearning market. The three major catalysts in the region are the countrywide content digitization efforts across the school systems, the large-scale deployments of tablets in both academic segments, and the rapid adoption of eLearning in the higher education segments," reports Sam S. Adkins, Chief Research Officer. "It is the combination of these catalysts that has created a massive demand for packaged content and suppliers are scaling up fast to meet the demand."

The free Abstract is available at: http://www.ambientinsight.com/Reports/eLearning.aspx