Several conceptual, technological, organizational and content barriers are hindering close integration of KM and
EL2–8. By overcoming them we may expect clear benefits for disciplines and increased quality, convenience, diversity and effectiveness within an organization9–11. There are several theoretical approaches for connecting both disciplines. They are described in literature as KM and EL integration models6,7,10,12–15. To develop practically applicable integration solution for specific organization it is necessary to understand these integration approaches. The main goal of this paper is to analyze existing integration models. The main criterion for analysis is application of integration model in the enterprise.
To describe connection of KM and EL domains, terms “integration” and “adoption” are used with very close meaning. In this paper term “integration” is used to describe situation when KM and EL are two equal, parallel operating disciplines. Their common, consistent implementation and usage is integration of knowledge management and e-learning. Term “adoption” will be used, when one discipline is the basis for another, approaches and tools from another discipline are tailored and used to increase its efficiency. The structure of the paper is following. KM and EL integration models are analysed in Section 2. The results ofmodel analysis are presented in Section 3. The conclusions contain a summary of the main ideas of the paper.