Almost all countries in the region and majority of the training programmes reviewed provide training on a face-to-face mode. The value of face-to-face training is still highly acknowledged in the region plus the fact that running online courses can be costly and difficult to manage in countries where little experience and skills in this area is still the rule rather than the exception.

Only two countries reported of a combination of face-to-face and online mode – the IBM-sponsored training course in Viet Nam and South Korea where the evaluation of learning is done online while the rest of the training is face-to-face.

Purely online courses are run by commercial companies, educational foundations and IT industries on the Internet. Examples of these are Microsoft’s ActDen, PBS, Bellanet iTrain – whose modules can be accessed on the Internet and are either open source or one needs to register and enroll. PBS provides online, informal self-paced lessons and online formal professional development within supervised learning communities.