Following last year's inaugural debate on e-learning at the Oxford Union - the prestigious 186-year-old debating society – Epic, the equally well established (in terms of the e-learning industry) e-learning content provider, has been encouraged to try this format again. So, on 6th October, Epic is sponsoring another Oxford Union debate – linking informal learning [...]
At the recent Training Transformation Symposium (at the Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) in Chatham, Kent), Fabrizio Cardinali - CEO of Giunti Labs and chair of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) - presented a five point plan to ensure economic competitiveness through worker competency in the face of global economic challenge and change. [...]
Giunti Labs, the learning and mobile content management solution provider, is adding its expertise to that of specialists at the University of Oxford to help to reduce problems associated with pre-eclampsia in pregnant women - one of the leading causes of maternal death in the developing world. Giunti Labs is helping the Nuffield Department [...]
Matthew Lloyd, managing director of the e-learning solutions provider, Omniplex (http://www.omniplex.co.uk), contributed to the recent discussion, in London, on ‘Value for Money eLearning Solutions’, organised by eLearning Network (eLN) - a non-profit organisation run by the e-learning community for the e-learning community. While welcoming the trend to use rapid authoring tools to produce learning [...]
The e-learning industry has only been with us for about 20 years (before that, it was the computer-based training world, which was an offshoot of the IT sector). Perhaps because it’s such a young industry – certainly compared with, say, most of the City of London livery companies such as the Mercers, Goldsmiths and Vintners [...]
The word ‘courses’ is now extremely ‘vieux chapeau’, according to leading edge e-learning commentator Clark N Quinn. Writing for the eLearning Guild’s website, Quinn argues that, for all the sophistication of our technology, our view of learning has not really changed. In an era of semantic web, augmented reality, virtual worlds and more, we are [...]
A survey – appropriate for these pre-election times - by CitySocialising, which claims to be the UK’s ‘leading socialising network for outgoing professionals’, has revealed that Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg and Britain’s wartime Prime Minister (PM), Winston Churchill, are the politicians people would most like to take on a night out with their friends. [...]
Learning Light’s report into the UK e-learning sector in 2009 is winning recognition not only among the corporate e-learning community but also among UK academics. ‘The UK e-learning market 2009’ has prompted positive responses from both the commercial and academic worlds. Using financial modeling and third party research, the report – which updated an [...]
Email’s ‘read receipt’ function can be invaluable. Not only does it tell you that someone has read your email, it can also tell you that someone hasn’t read it – and, of the two, this latter option can be the more revealing. Recently, I sent out some stories – of a training/ e-learning nature [...]
Learning Light is beginning work on updating its figures on the size, shape and state of health of the UK's e-learning industry. Last December Learning Light published its second report into the UK's corporate e-learning industry. In the process it updated figures for this sector which were first published in 2007. The 2009 report's principal [...]
