Internet und Intranet sind mehr als Hilfen bei der Ausbildung

The earlier CBT (Computer Based Training) has turned into WBT (Web Based Training). The initial attempts to use the WWW for educational purposes by just offering a sequence of WWW pages with some email or chat support have not turned out to be overly successful. It has become clear in the meantime that much more is needed, something that we call a GEneral Networked Training and Learning Environment with the nice acronym GENTLE. A system of this kind has been developed at the speaker’s institute, see http://wbt.iicm.edu. However, even such general environments can only be properly understood and can only develop their full potential if they are seen as pieces of a more general concept called “Knowledge Management”: part of general Knowledge Management (KM) is Knowledge Transfer (KT) and this is exactly what WBT is all about. In this talk we will first explain KM and its relation to KT, and how systems such as GENTLE fit into this general picture.