First days of spring brought us many interesting events in the field of e-learning. In the last days of March, new educational NBPortal was officially published in Web. NBPortal is going to educate society in economics and explain current economic situation. It contains a lot of tips for teachers and uses asynchronical, e-learning methods.

Two e-learning conferences are also going to be held soon. The first is organized by Polish Virtual University from 13 to 15 May 2004. Leading subjects are:



Annual conference held by Warsaw University od Technology between 3-5 of June is going to concern Virtual University: model, tools and practice. It will cover (among others): Virtual Education in Europe and in the world, pedagogical aspects of e-learning, etc.

In this issue we present activity of European organization EDEN and a programme od another conference held in Budapest in June. This one is one of most important e-learning events in Europe.

The issue also contains many interesting articles concerning e-education. We write about computer games and their influence on education, especially a project of UniGame. We also cover teaching languages online, which is an important subject in e-learning as there exist many barriers and problems from students' side.

I'd like to attract your attention to an article about HR live-long learning in the context of European Union enlargement. The author points out that Polish entreprenuers have to understand the trends in this process.

I highly recommend an article about measuring intelectual potential in a company. Authors present distinguishing method, which contains many helpful criteria.

In e-business sector we publish articles about eGovernment and open source, which is one of the most important sorces of the development of Internet and e-business.

As always, I would like to thank for visiting our website. 8400 readers have got aquainted with three first issues of e-mentor so far.

Marcin Dąbrowski