The document summarizes important trends in online education based on a 2004 presentation. It identifies six major trends: 1) A large-scale mega trend of online education shifting from small experiments to large-scale operations requiring industrialization. 2) A systems integration trend of different education systems needing to work together seamlessly. 3) A market trend of increased competition requiring cost-effectiveness. 4) A mobile learning trend enabled by improved mobile devices. 5) A broadband and multimedia trend allowing richer online content. 6) A globalization trend making transnational online education more common.