can promote the development of a permanent aptitude to training and education. Schools, supported by ITC, can design different training and educational paths in order to reach a wider target group (adults, workers, unemployed people, et) and provide them with innovative and motivating materials. ICT can be used to increase access to education by adults who could not (for economic, geographic, physical or organisational reasons) attend full-time course;

can develop the ability to apply an active research reasoning method, "learning by doing", to find the right tools and adapt the teaching style to suit the needs of their pupils. Furthermore ICT can enhance skills of deduction, prediction, seeking of relationships, independent formulation and verification of hypotheses, problem-solving strategy, develop creativity, interdisciplinarity and communication skills; 

in schools is the national component to the broad access to media that young people have outside school: it is a way to develop learning methods ad learning-oriented keys to access information;

can help (in particular, CD-rooms, hypertexts, animation, graphics, ..) teachers to set priorities within courses and give them more power to develop an individual curriculum for students. Furthermore teachers can design relevant and updated materials for students;

in school by definition encourage autonomy of learner and provides a broad range of opportunity to practice exploration learning.