A few interesting statistics from this report:
- The amount of digital information created and shared globally in the past 5 years has increased 9x.
- 100 hours of YouTube video are uploaded every minute.
- 58% of US mobile phone users have smartphones.
- Mobile Internet use continues to increase across the world.
- Tablet use growth is even greater than mobile use growth.
- The Chinese spend more time on the Internet (and particularly on their mobile devices) than Americans.
- 60% of the top 25 technology companies were founded by first- and second-generation Americans, demonstrating the entrepreneurial power of immigrants.
- 32% of post-secondary students are taking at least one online course as a part of their degree program.
- Most of the top learning tools designated by surveyed learning professionals were free Internet tools (see slide 108).