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Today, most organizations need to extend lifelong learning opportunities to their employees in order to be successful in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. Organizations are turning to technological solutions to enable online in-house training and learning for their employees. An integrated approach to e-learning is important because it can be effectively used to analyze employee performance and also to gather information for continuous online and real-time learning of organizational goals to better tailor the educational product and its content. Online learning is made possible by advancements in network infrastructure and the development of voice and multimedia protocols for the seamless transport of information. We discuss why e-learning is important in creating a General knowledge dissemination system, and why KD systems need a structured e-learning approach. We discuss the role of knowledge officers, practitioners, facilitators and mentors, and employees in enabling knowledge dissemination in such a system. Next we summarize the employee centric and organizational metrics for evaluating e-learning systems. The main focus of the article is on studying critical factors that affect e-learning not only in the context of organizational requirements, but also in light of technological capability, pedagogical approaches, preferred learning styles, communication modes, and interaction styles across knowledge types. This article proposes an integrated e-learning system-design framework for knowledge dissemination across General Knowledge types. We discuss future trends in employing e-learning for KD and present conclusions. The developer of an e-learning system faces several challenges in designing systems for an online learning environment that ensures strong, effective, and secures learner interaction that best replaces the face-to-face interaction taking place on-site in the workplace and in training sessions In addition to having a clear understanding of the About General Knowledge type requirements, the challenge is in supporting good pedagogy and learning practices given technical and other constraints. Technical constraints include bandwidth, quality of service real-time interactions, support for multiple users, and security requirements. In parallel, instructional design that incorporates appropriate pedagogical techniques into a rich repertoire of learning resources is needed for creating a dynamic e-learning environment. These pedagogical techniques, if tailored to specific knowledge types, can improve productivity by sharing best practices within an organizational community. An enabling online knowledge-dissemination environment should allow for dynamic networked online interaction to create a noncompetitive atmosphere that values both explicit and tacit About General Knowledge dissemination, and the conversion of knowledge between these types to enable learning E-learning involves encouraging the employee to spend time electronically to bring about learning, and to collect information and analyze it with respect to organizational needs, learning processes, and user preferences.
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