Ambient Learning: Rationale and its use in Supporting Blend Learning for Executive Education

This paper presents the innovative e-learning service, ambient learning, and its use to support blend learning for executive education. Ambient learning is designed to facilitate access to high quality e-learning material tailored to the needs of an individual executive. These needs are determined by the time, place, pace and context that best suits the individual learner. Ambient learning through the provision of content integration allows access to, new e-learning material as well as existing catalogues/e-learning resources. The paper reports on the use of ambient learning into teaching of an MBA and MSc in information systems courses, taught at executive mode. Studying in Executive mode it is meant that all 12 sessions of a module are delivered once per month during a weekend. A preliminary evaluation study has shown very good results