The motives for introducing corporate learning centres include a desire to keep up to date with information technology, facilitating the learning organization ethos, and making provision for continuing professional education and lifelong learning. The key benefits of open learning are as follows: It recognizes the fact that different people learn at different speeds and in different ways, it helps individuals accept responsibility for their own learning, it encourages self-motivation, and dispels the idea that attendance on courses is the equivalent of effort and achievement and so on. Computer literacy skills are just as important in business as the more conventional skills of reading, writing and arithmetic. Familiarity with computerized corporate systems and the better-known desktop publishing, word processing, spreadsheet and graphics software packages is now considered essential for many jobs. In the new information age, everybody should have some familiarity with computers.