Building a Successful e-Learning Project in Higher Education

Internet has made our world, the way we live andeducate, more dynamic and virtual than ever, creating greaterchallenges and new possibilities. In this way, it is important thathigher education institutions have, as a priority, the goal offinding effective ways of providing new learning opportunitiesaccording to their environment: student characteristics; teachertraining; economic crisis and advancing technology in an effortto make learning more efficient, equitable and innovative. AtGuarda Polytechnic Institute, Portugal (IPG), we recognize theneeds and the opportunities to create and develop new eeducationcourses in order to engage and motivate students andteachers according to their needs. Thus, we have, in this lastdecade, developed and implemented a set of institutionalobjectives with regard to teaching electronic courses which aimto provide intuitive content online courses, easy to accessanywhere, any time. The main purpose of this paper is to presentour strategies as an institution, vision and goals when we talkabout electronic learning. We bring forward what we believe tobe extremely important and that must be considered when anorganization wants to implement and develop e-Learning. Thepaper also presents the outcomes and synthesizes the insightscollected since when we implemented a mobile learning solution.Findings indicate that building a successful e-learning projectdepends basically on two components, teachers’ training andstudents’ characteristics. The focus attention on these twocomponents can create new, successful and powerfulopportunities of e-learning