Je croyais avoir touché le fond, l’autre jour, quand j’ai entendu dans une conférence que le 11 septembre avait eu des effets positifs sur le développement de l’e-learning. Raison invoquée : de grands groupes américains ont réduit les déplacements en avion pour leurs cadres au profit des conférences à distance.
I really thought it could not get any worse than that when I heard in a conference a few weeks ago that September 11 « actually » had a positive impact on e-learning. Reason mentionned by the speaker was that large US companies refused to put their managers in planes and had to use more Web conferencing (I guess Web conferencing and e-learning are not the same thing but I did not dare asking the speaker because I had previously made a « thank you, Ben Laden, for helping developing new educational methods » comment that had chilled the audience.