E-LEARNING PLATFORM FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - CASE STUDY

E-learning holds a key position in ensuring the further development of information society, as it prepares people to address future challenges of knowledge and information society. In practice, ensuring the development and sustainability of e-learning approaches can be quite challenging in environments accustomed to traditional training approaches, such as public administration, where resistance to systemic changes can be quite powerful. In this context, we intend to analyze and debate on aspects related to usage of blended learning in public administration in Romania, based on a case study that focuses on the development and usage of an e-learning platform resulted from a project implemented by the National Agency for Civil Servants (NACS) from Romania, with financial support from European Regional Development Fund and the national budget. We shall focus in particular on aspects related to ensuring the sustainability of such training approach in the civil service from Romania, after project finalization, while taking into consideration the increasing usage of ICT in public administration. The analysis is based on data from the NAGS project "Implementing e-learning system for training programs for public administration in view of supporting the development of information society", within which an e-learning platform was developed, with 20 training modules adapted for e-learning. Connecting projects and activities that include trainings and competence testing for public administration personnel from various levels in public administration can contribute significantly to ensuring efficiency and sustainability of e-learning in public administration, and eventually to further development of information society.