I present with pleasure the first issue of e-mentor in 2006. The New Year seems to be very interesting. It will definitely bring the development of internet trade and network services together with growing social trust in this medium. The meaning of modern technologies in didactics and lifelong learning in social life is growing. Knowledge management is becoming a common activity of an organization. In the conditions of knowledge-based economy and information society those phenomena are expected and almost natural. It is good to see more and more Polish teams participating in international e-learning research (we are always glad to inform about them in e-mentor) and advanced projects co-financed with the European Union funds carried out in Poland. It is also important that the first call for proposals concerning academic curriculums for online education with the use of new technologies co-financed with the European Social Fund has been announced in February. This announcement should be treated as a sign of positive trend of change in understanding the role of e-learning in higher education by administration and as a first step towards wider and permanent support of such activities. We will undoubtedly monitor and describe the trend in e-mentor.

The February issue begins with an article dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), an idea which is worth an afterthought. Also, a paper about Positive Organizational Scholarship published in Forms of curriculum section seems to be interesting and relevant. In e-education in Poland section, I recommend you articles which analyze the meaning of blended learning in academic education and the role of mobile technologies in teaching. I encourage you to get acquainted with problems of KM methodology and legal-organizational regulations of lifelong learning in Poland. I hope that our report presenting students' evaluation of e-sgh e-learning courses will be helpful during implementing similar projects in your institutions. The issue, apart from articles, information about conferences, publications and websites, includes short reports on most recent activities of a few universities. I encourage you to read their information and send us your descriptions. Thanks to them, e-mentor will become a better forum of academic discussion.

Marcin Dąbrowski
Chief editor