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Follows on from Patti Anklam’s Social-Network Toolkit. Consequently it focuses on the human-dimensions and the transportable nature of e-learning/e-training, forming an important part of the social networking that transpires in all parts of our daily lives. It also describes the current position in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region of the use of e-learning/training through a ‘social context lens’, which is relevant in both the business and government sectors

The social context of e-learning goes hand-in-glove with e-communities. In most cases these communities develop online through a digital osmosis, changing the ways we deal with our tacit (conceptual) knowledge sharing.

The toolkit presents eight e-learning case studies written by academic researchers in a mix of corporate/industry sector training and education sector online learning programmes. While these case studies are located in the Asia-Pacific region, the professional training practice as it applies to the Australian view is threaded throughout this E-learning Toolkit.