Virtual Action Learning: Experiences from a Study of an SME e-Learning Programme

This paper presents the findings from a project investigating management development for SME managers using an action learning programme, combining both face-to-face workshops and a virtual action learning environment. The project aimed to address 3 main objectives: reworking results from previous European projects to disseminate to a wider audience, creating a learning network/ community amongst the project partners and to undertake 3 learning trials with SMEs in UK, France and Italy. This paper principally addresses the findings from the UK trials, which ran between February and April 2005, and provides valuable learning to all those interested in developing future learning programmes aimed at SMEs. Keywords. e-learning, action learning, management, development, programme, SME

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ECTEL
• Authors: Jean-Anne Stewart, Gillian Alexander
• Keywords: Action Learning, Action Learning Environment, Action Learning Programme, ECTEL 2006, Machine Learning