Electronic markets for learning

Abstract

EW technologies are transforming the ways businesses operate and the ways people work. They are also reshaping the expectations, needs, and opportunities in education and learning. This evolving world is boosting demand for new knowledge and skills. As a result, the amount of information that needs to be learned is growing rapidly-and often becomes obsolete just as quickly. At the same time, organizations are becoming team-based, networked, and geographically dispersed. And as costs continue to rise, it may become not only physically but financially impractical to bring participants together in the same classroom for company training or university courses. All these factors emphasize the need for distributed delivery of education and training.