INTRODUCING E-LEARNING 2.0 IN SME - A Practical Guide

Ileana Hamburg

2008

Abstract

e-Learning 2.0 can support corporate training to assure a fast transfer of knowledge by meeting small and medium sized-companies (SME) needs of flexibility, to be oriented to their business and be easier integrated into their workflow with a suitable personalized content at a lower cost to the organization. In this paper after the presentation of some reasons of the low use of e-Learning in European SMEs examples of training strategies including e-Learning 2.0 for improving this situation and guidelines to use them are given.

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Hamburg I. (2008). INTRODUCING E-LEARNING 2.0 IN SME - A Practical Guide . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-26-5, pages 448-451. DOI: 10.5220/0001514204480451


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@conference{webist08,
author={Ileana Hamburg},
title={INTRODUCING E-LEARNING 2.0 IN SME - A Practical Guide},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={448-451},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001514204480451},
isbn={978-989-8111-26-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - INTRODUCING E-LEARNING 2.0 IN SME - A Practical Guide
SN - 978-989-8111-26-5
AU - Hamburg I.
PY - 2008
SP - 448
EP - 451
DO - 10.5220/0001514204480451