Purpose – The paper focuses on e‐learning from an information literacy perspective and promotes the view that information literacy education needs to play a central role within any e‐learning initiative. The main aim of this paper is therefore to present the claim that e‐learning must be...

Describes learners according to how they have responded to the twin challenge of taking responsibility for planning their own learning and squeezing learning out of this emerging experience. Typifies learners as sleepers, warriors, adventurers and sages. Provides a range of development processes...

Outlines an innovative blend of theory and application developed by the Salisbury Consulting Group in an attempt to address the rigidity characteristic of traditional management training. The approach is based on a simple definition of a manager (as anyone who takes responsibility for his or her...

Reflects on the practical experience of the author in introducing competency‐based action learning into Australian public and private sector organizations. Contains a series of interviews with graduates of an action learning Masters programme in the Health industry. Suggests that early and...

Presents the view that learning skills off‐site is the most effective way of training. Because of the high cost of college courses, correspondence training is promoted as an effective low cost approach for an employee to learn new skills. Explores the evolution of this approach from the...