Steps of Implementing an E-learning Programme in Superior Education

This paper presents a new definition of e-learning, as a blend of the traditional classroom-based learning with the internet-based one. It takes into consideration the fact that learning is more comprehensible than training, as it includes unintended and non-institutionalised learning as well. The authors consider the Internet technologies a means suitable for creating and delivering an instructional environment and not a purpose in itself. Taking into account the above-mentioned opinions, there are defined and described the steps to be used in implementing an e-learning programme in superior education, steps such as: establishing the target audience, designing the traditional lecture and its electronic version, as well as their curricula, establishing a relative, adaptive percentage of the two components involved, designing or/and accessing virtual communities related to the approached field, purchasing the necessary, most appropriate technology. An application, now in progress at the Romanian-English section, within Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, is presented in the final part of the paper