The Logistics Knowledge Portal: Gateway to More Individualized Learning in Logistics

Abstract

The paper describes a research and development project initiated by a network ofEuropean logistics educators to promote all types, forms and levels of logistics education bybenefiting from the educational potential of multimedia/hypermedia as well as informationtechnology and telecommunications. Main outcome of this project will be a learning processpersonalizing, integrating infrastructure that is manifested as the Logistics Knowledge Portalavailable on the Internet as a resource for developing a personalized learning path for employees,students, interested bodies, based on the in-depth understanding of learning needs and goals,managed under a classification method for learners and categorization method for all availabletechnology-based learning material. With this the project aims at providing a solution to problemsin logistics learning in Europe and world-wide. Furthermore, many of its results in both, researchand development, are expected to be of fundamental nature and therefore applicable to otherdomains of knowledge too.