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Time for an e-learning update

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 [...]

By | April 13th, 2010|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , |0 Comments

No sexism please, we’re e-learning professionals

The April edition of the ‘Chalkface’ diary, in E-Learning Age, the UK’s leading magazine for those in the corporate e-learning world, has taken issue with the list of the ‘top ten movers and shakers’ in the e-learning world published on this website in January (see ‘Bob Little’s top ten e-learning movers and shakers’, 8th January [...]

By | April 12th, 2010|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Learning Light re-launches the e-learning centre website

Learning Light has revised and re-launched the e-learning centre website, which attracts a worldwide audience and over 72,000 unique hits a month. The website (www.e-learningcentre.co.uk) now carries: e-learning related news and views reviews and resources – including book reviews, articles and papers, along with recommended e-learning related blogs and websites a directory of organisations providing [...]

By | March 23rd, 2010|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , , |0 Comments

E-learning budgets increase in the voluntary sector

A survey of learning technologies in the voluntary sector - encompassing over 80 charities, representing more than 50,000 staff and volunteers – has found that: The top four benefits of adopting learning technologies are: improving flexibility of learning; improving access to learning; cutting costs and increasing reach. Over 66% of participants are looking for their investment [...]

By | March 16th, 2010|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Bob Little’s top ten e-learning movers and shakers

This is an excellent time of year to review the previous 12 months (not the easiest time for any business) and to offer predictions for the next 12 (maybe more of the same) – and then forget all of that in order to be swept away on the rising tide of optimism that accompanies the [...]

By | January 8th, 2010|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Needs must – when PwC drives

A report of the Learning 2009 event in Florida, USA - freely available from www.learninglight.com – written by a team of UK learning technology specialists, including Learning Light’s David Patterson, along with UKTI’s Nigel Goddard, Assessment 21’s Gerard Lennox and Sean Gilligan of Webanywhere, outlines a presentation given by Sarah Lindsell, Andrew Wolff and Helen [...]

By | December 23rd, 2009|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , |0 Comments

Learning Light’s e-learning optimism

A report on the UK e-learning sector in 2009 - ‘The UK e-learning market 2009’ - published this month by Learning Light, the Sheffield-based centre of excellence in the use of e-learning and learning technologies in the workplace, paints an optimistic picture: stating that the sector is ‘flowering’ despite the recession. The report’s principal finding [...]

By | December 7th, 2009|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Personalisation and contextualisation solutions at Online Educa in Berlin

Standards, tools and techniques for competency and skills based learning content personalisation are emerging – which is just as well because they can help organisations perform better in the increasingly competitive global economy. This is the message that Giunti Labs (www.giuntilabs.com) is outlining at this year’s Online Educa conference and exhibition, being held in Berlin [...]

By | November 27th, 2009|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , |0 Comments

Master’s degree in e-learning

Giunti Labs, the vendor of learning content management solutions (learn eXact LCMS) and digital repository platforms (HarvestRoad Hive), is supporting the Faculty of Education Sciences at the University of Genoa in the provision of its Master’s in E-learning degree programme (http://masterelearning.unige.it). The programme, which is also supported by The European Pedagogical ICT Licence Group (EPICT) [...]

By | November 23rd, 2009|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , |0 Comments

ELIG hits out at cost-cutting

At its 2009 Annual General Meeting in Lausanne, the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) formally endorsed the view that cost-cutting by itself was not a sustainable way out of the current economic crisis and that innovation was required now more than ever.   “With new ICT enabled tools we can tap the brainpower of knowledge [...]

By | November 4th, 2009|Categories: Business, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments