Expanding e-learning effectiveness. The shift from content orientation to knowledge management utilization.

Abstract: The e-learning industry in recent years faced a tremendous development. The technological capabilities of modern tool-sets expand from off-line to on-line solutions covering a wide spread of learning needs (Close et al, 2000), (Ruttenber et al). Nevertheless the requirements of modern business units seem to diversify from training seminars to corporate learning portals implying a desired reinforcement of capacities for effective actions. Academic institutes such as universities have to adopt their traditional approaches in the modern setting. The e-learning initiative both in corporate and academic environment defines new ways of improving performance. The objective is to reveal the necessity to formulate dynamic learning environments capable to be customized according to value perceptions. The research effort is concentrated on the definition of variables that will enhance the value justification of such systems and will realize the modularity of a value creating e-learning environment through advanced knowledge management systems