E-learning (TT Feb02 p6)

Oceanus had been struggling recently to understand where all the talk about elearning is leading. This interest was triggered two years ago when a large organisation, gripped by the e-business bug, decreed that all staff, from the top down, should master the intricacies of the e-environment (which proved to range from surfing the net to grappling with data encryption).

Any incipient smugness was immediately sand-bagged as it was announced (in an email, of course) that passing an exam in e-business would be a prerequisite to remaining in the firm! Three strikes and then you were out. To learn about e-business you would need an e-learning package – textbooks could not be contemplated. Then it got better: to show commitment to this new environment, the exam had to be online.