Editorial board editor-in-chief

Keywords:
Pharmacy continuing education, e-learning, online learning, Internet based learning, professional education
Introduction
Due to the ubiquity of the Internet, e-learning is becoming more 
and more important tool in education. “e-learning is an approach 
to facilitate and enhance learning through, and based on, both 
computer and communications technology. […] may be used to 
suit distance learning through the use of Wide Area Networks, and 
may also be considered to be a form of lexible learning where 
just-in-time learning is possible” [1]. This wide deinition comes 
from wikipedia.com, the site prepared by people who work and 
learn together [2]. Others describe e-learning as simply pedagogy 
empowered by digital technology [3].
Nowadays e-learning is deined as the acquisition of knowl
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edge and skills using electronic technologies such as computer- 
and Internet- based courseware and local and wide area net-
works [4]. It cannot be forgotten that e-learning should involve 
student-student, student-teacher or teacher-teacher interaction. 
Participants of e-learning courses should be aware of the results 
of their education process; their knowledge should be evalu-
ated throughout the course. Therefore uploading materials on 
a website, like lectures or exercises, is still not real e-learning 
since it lacks this interactive component [12].Today e-education 
is often linked with traditional learning. This leads to the for
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mation blended learning, Europe’s irst e-learning initiative [2]. 
This method combines advantages of traditional learning with 
advantages of e-learning and some of them involve:

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E-Learning in pharmaceutical continuing education in Poland
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wide spectrum of subjects available,
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cost reduction,
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time lexibility,
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integrated assessment tools,
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multimedia materials,
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high interactivity [2].
Advantages of traditional learning involve:
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direct interpersonal relations,
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live contact with the tutor,
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well deined time and place of training,
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evaluation of knowledge,
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contact with real experiment,
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training of interpersonal ability [2].