Abstract
Total Quality revolution of the last decade put the issue of personnel training as a mandatory commitment for companies, to assure human resources more flexibility and self-consciousness on the production problems. Training activities are quite often delegated to external consultants or to non-professional internal skilled personnel, which applies naive approach in teaching.
The original ideas that inspired the ESPRIT project n.28974, named “Total Quality Management on-line”, are here presented. The project, currently in process within a consortium of several 1st and 2nd tier automotive suppliers, addresses the problem of continuous education on Total Quality topics using the most advanced Information Technologies. The present paper sketches the main features of a virtual learning environment which is proposed as a new approach to this aim.
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The paper was originally conceived by both Authors during fruitful discussions held in 1998. Unexpected decease of Professor Attilio Alto prevented him to contribute to the writing of the final version.
It is a wish of the coauthor to maintain the name of Professor Attilio Alto to pay homage to his memory, to his innovative spirit and constant attention devoted to ethic and social aspects of the scientific research and educational activity throughout his life.
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Alto, A., Dassisti, M. (1999). Virtual Learning Environment Based on Advanced Information Technologies. In: Kuljanic, E. (eds) AMST ’99. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 406. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2508-3_102
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