Quantitative and qualitative results of the national program for e-learning in Taiwan

This paper provides an overview of quantitative and qualitative outcome of the national program for e-learning in Taiwan (ELNP for short). The national program was planned and initiated in 2002 by the National Science Council. Taiwan government wished to promote e-learning industry and make all people have same opportunity to learn knowledge via e-learning. A five-year national program for e-learning started from 2003. This paper shows both of quantitative and qualitative outcomes of national program in the past four years from four different ways: public welfare, academic researching output, e-learning industry, technological results.