The introduction of communications and information technologies in the area of education tends to create a totally different environment, which is marked by a change of the teacher's role and a transformation of the basic components that make up the meaning and content of the learning procedure as a whole. It could be said that, despite any changes, this training process is subject to a "tayloristic" linear model of production that takes the student at childhood and gives him back to society and the dynamics of the market with the hope that he will be able to respond creatively to the constantly increasing demands. As the student moves down the school assembly line, teachers at various levels give him the knowledge that has been worked out for each level in a predefined and uniform way. This paper asks the question: is the introduction of training technology going to help reverse this closed model of training process or is it just going to modernize the ways and methods, keeping the main body of the training assembly line unchanged? Discussion includes characteristics of the conventional-linear model of education; the new hybrid type learning environment; and requirements for the development of an open learning environment. (Contains 12 references.) (Author/AEF)