title: [The new frontier of distance learning: the climate of the virtual lecture hall].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The recent ECM standards outline new dilemmas not only under an economic and/or management point of view, but even under a teaching and procedural aspect. FAD seems to solve problems, allowing us to arrange courses according to our demand, but it still doesn't solve all the issues, for example, the teaching-learning model.
  The article starts analysing formative procedures to reflect in an interactive logic about object and subject in FAD, to set a dynamic learning process in a knowledge management viewpoint, where the user is fully aware that he/she will be divided from his/her tutor and from his/her colleagues in the virtual classroom. The learning environment is a crucial circumstance to assure full functionality of the course and to make the FAD experience a valuable one and repeatable in the future for different courses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  FAD is an asynchronous activity and for this it could be moulded according to the single user's requirements. It needs a relational dimension to facilitate the learning process through the strategy sharing of problem solving.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento per l'innovazione educativa e didattica, campus Bio-Medico, Roma, Italia.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Binetti
mesh_terms: D020375:Education, Distance; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D011361:Professional Competence