ABSTRACT
Present trends in information technology, telecommunications, and electronics are driving the growth of a worldwide infrastructure interconnecting people in their homes, schools, and companies. We expect that, within five years, employees and trainees will be able to follow training courses, instruction sessions, and professionalisation programmes on their own workstations at home or in the office through some form of teleeducation, tele-learning, or tele-working. People will be able to determine for themselves when they wish to learn. Tele-learning-the use of telecommunications in the learning process-may emerge in different forms, but it will always involve interaction between ‘tele-coaches’, trainees (either in working groups or as individuals), and remote databanks.
