Business Process-driven Learning

With information technology progressing on a nearly day-to-day basis with respect to technical feasibility, general availability and individual familiarity, challenges of eLearning at the workplace no longer reside in technical impediments. Whereas bulky, unhandy software, weak network connections or low usability used to present the major obstacles, it is now the missing integration of eLearning in organizational processes that hinders its true business value to unfold [1]. Thus, respective research efforts no longer need to focus on pure technical implementations. Rather, they must tackle the issue of effective, i.e. business process-driven learning strategies realized by cutting-edge technology. Methods, concepts and information systems that allow eLearning tools, environments and solutions to be integrated and aligned to companies’ major business infrastructure loom large in the field of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) as outlined in this paper and based on the recent research of the EU IST integrated project PROLIX (www.prolix-project.org).