Ileana Hamburg

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/61009

#### **Abstract**

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) assure economic growth in Europe. Generally, many SMEs are struggling to survive in an ongoing global recession and are often reluctant to release or pay for staff training. E-Learning has tried to address issues of time and cost in SMEs, by allowing employees to access learning resources remotely, but its use in SMEs is not efficient. Cloud Computing offers many oppor‐ tunities and could help companies to improve their business and use technology more efficiently also for E-Learning. In addition to Cloud Computing, Scenario-based E-Learning introduces the learners to real-life situations close to their business allowing them to gather skills or information for future use, and also improves Learners' engagement and motivation to understand core concepts like the Cloud.

In this chapter, learning methods particularly E-Learning in European SMEs is described in part 1. The advantage of using Cloud Computing in E-Learning including models of cloud architectures for E-Learning are presented in part 2 and Scenariobased E-Learning in part 3. In part 4, examples and conclusions are given.

**Keywords:** SME, E-Learning, Cloud Computing, Scenarios, ICT
