Japan Science and Technology Corporation has developed a Web-learning service site, named Web Learning Plaza, providing free self-learning materials for engineering CPD (Continuing Professional Development). Web Learning Plaza opened on the Internet October 1, 2002. The site contains a large number of Web-based multimedia learning contents that encompass a wide range of engineering disciplines, totaling four hundred lessons. The learning contents are designed to be quick and easy to learn for engineers of college graduate or master's degree level. The number of registered learners totals around 3, 500 as of mid-February 2003, and is steadily increasing. The monthly number of learning sessions averages around ten thousand. We are projecting to create new learning materials shaped more flexible and modular.
