Abstract:

The number of students in Algeria is increasing every year, and many educational institutions and industrial sectors need to strengthen and update their knowledge.   In this context, the distance learning can be an effective way of learning and can help to fulfil these needs and achieving goals efficiently. In such way of education, the distance is no longer an obstacle for learning anymore and developing new skills in various domains of education and technologies. With the advancement of technology and increasing availability of high-speed Internet access, it is now possible to earn a degree entirely online or for businesses to provide company-wide training through e-learning. So due to the importance of distance learning education, a three-year partnership project was established between the university of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) and the university Abou Bakr Belkaid of Tlemcen (UABBT). This project entitled « Development of Engineering Management Curriculum and Distance-Learning Methodologies in Algeria: An Educational Partnership », aims at providing educational and technical support to the university Abou Bakr Belkaid in order to help it to develop modern teaching methodologies including Internet and distance learning.   For this purpose, a group of Instructors from the university Abou Bakr Belkaid had training in distance learning/education at UMR in order to monitor the distance learning equipment and recording methods.   This experience has been very successful and will help the members of the group to defuse it in Algeria.   The aim of this paper is to explore in one hand, the importance of such partnership in helping developing countries to adopt online learning and focus on how such methods could be of a great importance for the instructors to develop their way of  teaching efficiently and on the other hands, we will explore the impact that can has the  e learning on institutions, impinging on both organizational structures and individual functions