Improving Quality of Education through the Use of Intranet

Higher educational institutions are just like companies forced to adapt to the ever faster changing environment. There are several obstacles in the way of introducing e-learning in higher educational institutions. We can divide them into technology-based and culturally based. Many benefits of e-learning such as cost-effectiveness, enhanced responsiveness to change, consistency, timely content, flexible accessibility, and providing value to the customer are not based only on the use of high technology. We cannot expect that the use of advanced technology is enough to change the way we work as a human being. Technologic solutions in the form of portals have been known for quite some years. A recurring problem has become efficiency and usefulness of these solutions. Integration of dispersed sources is not sufficient. Individual users should obtain information in a variety of ways in a personalized way. The paper will address the topic of using internet as a medium to achieve the primary goal of higher educational institutions to become better, more competitive. However, this is not just about core functions but the supporting functions need to be addressed to. We will present an e-learning environment at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ljubljana. The model of personalized portals has been tested in practice. This case has also proved that cultural changes never take place over night.