A technology enhanced flexible learning approach for SMEs

18th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication -- SEP 03-07, 2007 -- Athens, GREECEWOS: 000253402502176The European project ELISA (e-Leaming for Improving access to Information Society for SMEs in the South East European Area) is an INTERREG CADSES project that involves 13 partners from 8 countries, coming from academia, government and the service sector, with the main objective of implementing combined training methods for improving the acceleration of e-business penetration in the target countries. In this paper we give a brief description of ELISA, we summarize the implementation of various technology enhanced training deliveries and we analyse the characteristics and functionality of the ELISA e-learning platform that was created based on the open-source Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle. We are trying to prove that, regardless the difficulties, technology enhanced learning can be efficiently used by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and by governments who wish to create learning centres providing such training to local SMEs with reduced cost. Given that the 23 million SMEs represent the 99% of the European Enterprises, this can prove to be a very efficient contribution to the Lisbon European Strategy for the Information Society.IEEE Commun Soc, Univ Athens, Natl TechELISA; SMEs in South East EuropeThis work is supported from the project ELISA (e-learning for improving access to Information Society for SMEs in the SEE Area). ELISA is an INTERREG IIIB CADSES funded project that aims at improving the access to knowledge and the information society of SMEs in South-East Europe, through close cooperation of academic and business communities at a transnational level. All information about the ELISA project and the ELISA consortium can be found at the addres