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11/10/2003

World Wide Learn Announces Quarterly World Wide Learn Top Five, Reveals Top Ten Visitor Demographics
Viewership up 25 percent in third quarter, professional degrees remain hot

CALGARY, ALBERTA - November 10, 2003-World Wide Learn, publisher of the world's largest directory of e-learning courses and online education resources, today announced the third quarter's World Wide Learn Top Five Subjects. The company also introduced a demographic ranking, the World Wide Learn Top Ten Countries, which highlights e-learning's popularity across the world.

The World Wide Learn Top Five ranking identifies the five subject areas that are most in demand by e-learners on the WorldWideLearn.com directory, and provides a snapshot of emerging trends in the e-learning industry. For the third quarter of 2003, the World Wide Learn Top Five Subjects are:

WWL Q3 Top Five Subjects
1. Education Degrees
2. Language Courses
3. Library Science
4. Medical Degrees
5. Psychology Degrees

New to the World Wide Learn Top Five Subjects is Library Science, which displaced last quarter's Photography. This change underscores the continuing growth and popularity of an increasing variety of e-learning courseware and programs, as well as the wide appeal of e-learning to an expanding range of students.

World Wide Learn's visitor demographics represent visitors from every continent. To track the emergence of geographic markets, World Wide Learn has created the World Wide Learn Top Ten Countries, indicating which countries originated the largest number of visitors in the past quarter.

WWL Q3 Top Ten Countries
1. United States
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. India
5. Australia
6. Germany
7. Malaysia
8. Japan
9. Singapore
10. Pakistan

"As World Wide Learn continues to aggregate viewer information-from page views and search phrases to originating countries and top browsing hours-it is clear that e-learning is growing in terms of both audience and appeal," said Angela Lovett, CEO and founder of World Wide Learn. "It is exciting to be part of this mushrooming trend, as well as to have the opportunity to leverage our analysis to continue to refine and expand WorldWideLearn.com to not only meet the evolving needs of our partners, but also satisfy the increasing appetite for knowledge by e-learners around the world."

The Q3 World Wide Learn Top Five Subjects and World Wide Learn Top Ten Countries are based on a cumulative analysis of 1.7 million users throughout 2003 from around the world, who viewed nearly 2.5 million online pages in the third quarter of 2003 - a quarterly increase of nearly 25 percent over the previous quarter.

WorldWideLearn.com provides information about Education Degrees in one main category plus 12 subcategories from 41 universities, information about Library Science Degrees from 12 universities, information about Medical Degrees from 38 universities, and information about Psychology Degrees from 12 universities. The site also features Language Courses from a range of providers. World Wide Learn regularly adds new courses and partners to the WorldWideLearn.com directory.

About World Wide Learn
Founded in 1998, and based in Calgary, Canada, World Wide Learn offers the world's largest independent directory of educational services, featuring informative resources as well as hundreds of e-learning courses in 247 subject categories. WorldWideLearn.com enables its users to quickly and easily locate effective e-learning courseware. The directory highlights free courses and tutorials, computer training, corporate training, post-secondary education, professional development, personal development, and continuing education. Some of World Wide Learn's leading university partners include Baker College, Capella University, Kaplan University, University of Phoenix and Walden University.

More information about World Wide Learn can be found on the company's website at www.WorldWideLearn.com.