ENABLE - a 24 month, 300,000 euro, EU-wide Leonardo project, which aims to bring e-learning to marginalised learners - is making such impressive progress that it is attracting interest from outside Europe and has received an enquiry from McGirr Associates, of New Zealand. The ENABLE project involves Learning Light, The Workshop Sheffield (TWS) and [...]
According to the results of research by Middlesex University, published at the Association for Learning Technology (ALT)’s annual conference at the University of Nottingham this month, students are shunning multi-million pound high-tech college library services in favour of cheaper external resources such as Google and YouTube. The research reveals that students find university and [...]
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 [...]
Google has created an application experiment called CloudCourse. This is an open source learning platform, running under AppEngine, Google’s Cloud Based environment. CloudCourse is being used internally at Google for several learning management system (LMS) type functions - from registration to classroom management. It is available as an Open Source codeset (available from http://tinyurl.com/3yqpqrs) and [...]
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 [...]
Building on the success of this blog’s list of the ‘Top Ten’ most influential people in the corporate e-learning sector, here’s a ‘top ten’ list of learning technology-related blogs:. 1 Donald H Taylor: http://donaldhtaylor.wordpress.com/ 2 Jane Knight: http://janeknight.typepad.com/ 3 Phil Green: http://philipgreen.blogspot.com/ 4 Clive Shepherd: http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/ 5 Lisa Neal Gualtieri: http://blog.acm.org/elearn/ 6 Ron Edwards: [...]
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 US-based e-learning commentator, Elliott Masie, has identified that learning management systems (LMSs) seem to becoming ‘stretched’ by having to accommodate learning via new technologies. According to Masie: “Many organisations are celebrating their tenth – at least - anniversary with their LMS. While these systems have been updated and customised over the years, in [...]
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 [...]
