Special Issue on Challenges and Opportunities in eLearning: View of IT Academics

摘要

The IT world is changing rapidly. To keep their knowledge and abilities up to date there is a need for professionals, managers and researchers in the IT field for permanent education. Training on the job and by courses in and outside the company requires a lot of time, resources and planning to take part in such courses. Open and online training provides courses anytime, anywhere. Recently we observed an enormous grow in available open and online courses. Not only the quantity but also the quality of available open and online courses has been increased. The latest development in this area are the development of Massive Open and Online Courses MOOCs. Famous Universities as MIT, HARVARD offer many of their regular courses for free via the edX consortium. E-learning provides IT-specialist to take selected courses on time and places of their choice. Via this network of e-learning IT-specialist are able to increase their knowledge and develop their competences.