[The new frontier of distance learning: the climate of the virtual lecture hall]

The recent ECM standards outline new dilemmas not only under an economic and/or management point of view, but even under a teaching and procedural aspect. FAD seems to solve problems, allowing us to arrange courses according to our demand, but it still doesn't solve all the issues, for example, the teaching-learning model.

The article starts analysing formative procedures to reflect in an interactive logic about object and subject in FAD, to set a dynamic learning process in a knowledge management viewpoint, where the user is fully aware that he/she will be divided from his/her tutor and from his/her colleagues in the virtual classroom. The learning environment is a crucial circumstance to assure full functionality of the course and to make the FAD experience a valuable one and repeatable in the future for different courses.

FAD is an asynchronous activity and for this it could be moulded according to the single user's requirements. It needs a relational dimension to facilitate the learning process through the strategy sharing of problem solving.