E-learning in practice

• Fabienne ARATA
  Manager, Learning Services, IBM Global Services
  
• Gérard LAYOLE
  Entreprise & Personnel
  

Summary

Faced with increasingly real and complex needs for training in companies, e-learning appears to offer important advantages such as adapting training to individual needs, industrialisation, tracing, and cost reduction. Does it live up to its promises ? Beyond the fascination for a new technology, it seems to be important to define the most adaptable form of training. Frequently the "virtual" and the "on-site" approaches complement each other. If e-learning is to benefit from all the educational resources which computers offer, then, according to one of its most fervent supporters, " one should never be alone in front of a computer screen ", no more so than in front of a user manual …

Summary translated from French by Rachel MARLIN.

• The entire article was written by Élisabeth BOURGUINAT.

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