The objective of this paper is to present the experience of the ESI in distance learning. Certainly, no one can ignore today the impact of the technologies of information and communication on human training. Conscious of the interest of these new technologies in the field of education, ESI which has for about thirty years been providing in-house training in information science, has initiated a distance learning program in 2004, and proposes online certifying and paying courses These courses are part of the FORCIIR project, which is initiated by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.