The WPA Model-3

Over the last two years Lund University has devoted much energy to create distance learning facilities for both traditional student groups and to a growing extent for employed people in industry and the public sector in need of continuos learning. The courses cover a number of rapidly changing fields of knowledge and competence, such as information and communication technology. This paper describes a model that have been used to create a distance learning environment for a mixed group of learners in one such field of knowledge: business informatics and electronic commerce. The model paves the way for a new revolutionary concept for distance learning in this field in which learning is made by working and creating, not only by reading and by doing. A course in this environment becomes in fact a directed business process!