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New Technologies for Logistics Education

In the same way as logistics systems, processes and services operate in an increasingly more European framework logistics education needs to change its content taking international aspects into consideration and move from almost ‘conventional’ to networked environments. For this in 1999, a European logistics education network of universities and non-academic training organisations interested and involved in initial and further education and training in logistics was set up to promote all types and levels of logistics learning by means of all kind of new technologies in pan-European

The ELA-LogNet – a European logistics education network

Today, the network is associated with the European Logistics Association (ELA) by forming the ELA-LogNet working group of the ELA Vocational Education and Training Committee. It aims at encouraging, enabling and supporting logistics educators to use, produce and share computer-aided teaching and training material like CBT, simulations, educational multimedia etc. distributed on CD-ROM or via Internet. Furthermore it is in charge of developing, maintaining and taking care of a logistics education portal serving providers (learning providers, education service providers, consultants) and customers (individuals and companies/organizations/ institutions) in the field of logistics education and training.

The ELA-LogNet is organized as a heterogeneous network of like-minded logistics educators and trainers collaborating on a voluntary, non-commercial and interest-driven basis without a permanent third-party financial support. It unites logistics educators from many European places who are ready to improve logistics learning by means of multimedia and modern information and communication technologies. All persons and institutions interested in supporting logistics education and training, helping to understand and improve logistics competence with individuals and organizations or identifying challenges and requirements for new logistics learning processes are invited to join the network, take an active part in its activities and benefit from pan-European collaboration.

Activities of the ELA-LogNet aim to exchange information, to learn from each other and to start collaboration. In 1999, the ELA-LogNet launched a series of workshops on new technologies for logistics education (and training) to provide a platform and forum for discussion and exchange about new challenges and chances in logistics education and training and to promote collaboration and joint projects in all fields of interest to its members. Furthermore it runs an internet-based information and communication platform, the ELA-LogNet server, to support logistics educators in the development and use of technology-based learning materials, to distribute information and share experience or to learn from each other and enable collaboration. The ELA-LogNet initiates and accompanies European research, development and demonstration projects to promote the development of and access to high-quality logistics learning material in a comfortable way and to better understand the potential and limits of those materials.