{"id":12399,"date":"2025-07-21T07:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12399\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:35:22","slug":"more-internet-users-turn-to-online-learning-in-2024-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12399\/","title":{"rendered":"More internet users turn to online learning in 2024 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2024, 33% of <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> internet users reported that they had done an <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:E-learning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online course<\/a> or used online learning material in the 3 months prior to the survey. This is a 3 <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Percentage_point\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">percentage point<\/a> (pp) increase compared with 2023 (30%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Ireland recorded the highest share of internet users engaged in online learning (61%), followed by the Netherlands (59%) and Finland (53%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">By contrast, online education was less prevalent in Romania (10%), Cyprus (11%) and Bulgaria (17%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/83c35cc9-6f06-afdc-6751-113cd29da81a\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People doing an online course or using online learning material, % of individuals who used the internet in the last 3 months, 2024. Bar chart. See link to full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/83c35cc9-6f06-afdc-6751-113cd29da81a\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/isoc_ci_ac_i__custom_14902878\/bookmark\/table?lang=en&amp;bookmarkId=7994cf1f-ca39-4a91-84d3-cf389e1c9fc0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">isoc_ci_ac_i<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">When considering specific online learning methods, 18% of internet users did an online course in 2024, which was most prevalent in Ireland (36%), Finland and Spain (both 32%). At the same time, 29% internet users used online learning materials, with the highest share in the Netherlands (53%), Ireland (52%) and Finland (46%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">This news item marks the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/observances\/education-day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Day of Education<\/a>, celebrated on 24 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, 33% of EU internet users reported that they had done an online course or used online&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49,48,5894,11725,11724,8694,244,5896,66,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-12399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-data-driven-news","11":"tag-digital-society","12":"tag-edc","13":"tag-ict","14":"tag-internet","15":"tag-population-and-social-conditions","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}