Do you wish to help make your users more knowledgable about your field of interest, or is your goal to be an educational site per se.

While informing and supporting can be considered a form of education, to educate implies a structured process of learning with evaluation and testing being used to determine the degree of understanding.

Currently the phrase "e-learning" has got something of a bad press.
It is true that "drop out" rate from many e-learning initiatives is about 80%, with many reporting low user satisfaction.

the challenge...

Amongst the reasons for "e-learning" having a low appeal is the approach taken by many organisations, IE just dumping large volumes of text and illustrations onto web sites or disks and expecting people to read through it all and understand.

This is not going to work in most cases. What is needed is a variety of approaches and some direct human interaction. Under most circumstances using the internet is a "sit forward" experience. The user has to do all the work with reading and browsing. Also the sequence of information is often linear, such that when someine reaches a point they don't understand they are blocked from further progress.

It isn't surprising that many people tire of this approach!.

While we can't provide the direct human action we can advise on, and help develop a variety of strategies to make the "e-learning" experience more fulfilling.

• multi-layered knowledgebases.
• on-line quizes/self assessment
• audio/video material on-line
• polls
• games and other interactive systems.

Whichever option best suits your needs we can develop it for you.