This communication reports on a work-in-progress project involving managers of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) located in four Italian Regions: one of them is a historically less advantaged location. The research attempts to explore needs of training and education of managers and executives...

Worldwide, there are more and more enterprises, organizations and educational institutions where the educational process works partially or exclusively via the Internet using a wide range of online courses. In such an online course design, resources and materials made available to learners must...

The paper presents some aspects concerning the evaluation of e-learning systems, emphasizing in particular the tutor's role in such a training system and the evaluation of course materials’ quality.

The paper is based on a research conducted in "Carol I-st" National Defense University in the academic year 2010-2011. It concentrates on defining Knowledge Management and learning in networks, linking these concepts to military English learning situations. Attention is drawn to the details...

n the late 1990s, Knowledge Management (KM) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) seemed inseparable. CoPs appeared to offer the key to reversing the failure of some of the earlier technologically based attempts to manage knowledge. However, the original CoP concept was built around a very...

As commercial organisations face up to modern pressures to downsize and outsource they have begun to realise that they have lost knowledge as people leave and take with them what they know. This knowledge is increasingly being recognised as an important resource and organisations are now taking...

Within the Knowledge Management context, there is growing interest in computer support for group knowledge sharing and the role that Communities of Practice play in this. Communities of Practice are groups of individuals with a common purpose and who share some background, language or...

One of the challenges of the post-dot-com bubble era that many organizations are facing is being asked to deliver more with little or no budget increase in order to improve the bottom line. In addition, in the wake of the recent corporate accounting scandals, new regulations have been put into...

The paper is based on the results of the researches that I have conducted during the PhD studies within "Carol I-st" National Defense University. The main idea promoted by this paper is the need for a radical change in the military education structure as a consequence of the NATO and Armed Foces...