R2 - 1 Efficient Users Training
     Zoran Bekiæ, CARNet, Zagreb


 
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Permanent and fast changes in technology, unconditional demand for intensive transfer and exchange of knowledge within and between institutions and companies makes the training process obligatory part of any business activity, as well as any education program. What does characterize the efficient user training system: modularity, interactivity, practicality, adaptability to real user's environment, state-of-the-art level and applicability of delivered knowledge, availability of training to all potential users in sense of appropriate time and place, continuity (permanency) of training process? How to achieve some or all of this characteristics? What technology for knowledge and skill transfer to choose, when and how to combine them: live lectures, courses, workshops, printed educational materials, digital educational materials, interactive digital educational modules, distance learning technologies, live conferences and meetings of experts and users? How to measure efficiency of training system? What is the price of efficient user training and does the real result worth given price? Intention of panel is to gather experts and users, authors, organizers and participants of training activities to discuss general answers (if any exists) to this questions and particularities of efficient training in the field of Internet skills.