E-Learning in Workplaces

Abstract

In the new digital age, the ever changing economy has posed many challenges to organisations and individuals. The ability to adapt to changes has become more and more important. Lifelong learning has been introduced and emphasised in the new millennium and the potential of e-learning has been widely recognised. Many organisations and higher education institutions are adopting e-learning worldwide as a means for knowledge acquisition and sharing. This paper investigates recent developments of e-learning in workplace and higher education, both at individual and organisational levels, in order to provide guidelines for development of appropriate e-learning systems for these entities. It was found that the e-learning systems in both workplace and higher education environments possess certain common attributes. However, because these environments adopt different perspective towards e-learning as a medium for various knowledge management activities, some differences were identified and explicated. Such difference in the perspective, in turn, mandates a need for different research focus on the e-learning development.