Students of applied economy

This afternoon, I met with a couple of final-year students of applied economy here at Leuven university. For a course on English language skills, these students are organising a workshop on e-learning and its business potential.

I tried to point out that there is no simple economic rule about:

• What is the added value of eLearning as opposed to face-to-face learning
• How to do a cost/benefit analysis of eLearning
• How to motivate learners in companies to use eLearning

I am afraid that I kind of overwhelmed them with a flood of information. I did send a mail afterwards with some links that might be of interest to them:

• A good book on eLearning:
  

  Theory and Practice of Online Learning:
  
  http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/index.html

• An interesting Dutch website about eLearning:
  

  http://www.e-learningplaza.nl/

• The website of the Flemish government's program for online learning: http://www.bisonline.be/
  
  

Hope they can find an interesting focus for their workshop.

Stievie