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A Holistic Approach to support for E-learning on National Level - Croatian Story

Croatian Academic and Research Network - CARNet was created in 1991 as a project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia. In 1995 the Government of the Republic of Croatia issued a Decree on founding of the CARNet institution. In Croatia, CARNet is best known for different services it provides to its members - Croatian higher education and scientific institutions. At the beginning, the services were mostly in the domain of Internet infrastructure - both ATM connections between academic nodes and dial-in access for Croatian students and teaching staff. Even before 1999 it became apparent that e-learning, which had been at the time seen as a new paradigm for education in the forthcoming century, hadn't been practiced enough in Croatia, while there had been some successful pilot and infrastructural projects in the wider region. Internal education and attendance of conferences and workshops by CARNet e-learning pioneers, led to the conclusion that a stronger push and motivation was needed, and that CARNet should have the leadership in the field. Practising e-learning seemed impossible without a course management system and services surrounding it, so the search for the most advanced, yet affordable system had taken place during early 2000. In the mid 2000 WebCT was chosen as a platform, and technical part of the problem seemed to have been solved. However, it was obvious that there were many other challenges ahead, and due to CARNet's expertise in the field of face-to-face training, some were properly addressed during that time. Some however became visible later, when the feedback from the first online course designers and tutors started to reveal new needs.

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