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.