Construction of ecological environment in corporate e-Learning

This paper focuses on e-Learning in the view of ecology and tries to construct an ecological environment to resolve the issues which corporate training faced. Nowadays e-Learning of corporate plays a significant role in employee training, as well as developing the internal human resource system. However, we still cannot overlook the existing shortcomings, such as the high investment, immature system, shortage of interaction and the rigid curriculum design. Ecological environment of e-Learning is multidimensional and it includes physical environment, social environment and normative environment. This study uses the principle of ecology as an analytical tool to help understand how to construct a corporate e-learning environment by three sub-environments mentioned above. The e-Learning ecological environment should transform from learning spaces to learning places. The distinction is similar to that between a `house´ and a `home´: a house keeps out the wind and rain, but a home is where we live and we can find sense of belonging.