eLearning Network - Historic challenge for eLearning Network board places

For the aboriginal time in the 21-year history of the eLearning Network (eLN), the UK’s foremost able affiliation of users and developers of all forms of e-learning, there has been antagonism for places on the committee, with 19 candidates continuing for the 12 accessible places. According to the eLN’s administrator Clive Shepherd, who appear the after-effects of the election, at the eLN affair captivated in London at the end of November, the voting was close, with a individual vote authoritative the aberration amid accepting adopted or not.

The eLN adopted four new board associates for 2009. They are Carole Bower, SVP Learning, Edvantage Group; Fae Longman, IT Training Manager with CMS Cameron McKenna; Rob Hubbard, eLearning Architect at Learning Age Solutions, and Wendy Stubbs, Learning Innovations Consultant with British Airways.

Having appear the acclamation results, Shepherd paid accolade to three adept associates of the eLN board who were dispatch down in 2009: Geoff Berridge, of Parataxis; Howard Hills, of Howard Hills Associates, and Jan Seabrook, of Conation Technologies.

“While ours is a advanced organisation ambidextrous with arch bend technology, we mustn’t discount our history and heritage,” commented Shepherd.

“Geoff Berridge abutting the eLN board in 2004 and served as the group’s broker for some three years,” Shepherd said. “Among his abounding able accomplishments, he managed the banking business action for IBM in the backward 1970s and aboriginal 1980s; helped to set up IBM Financial Services, and went on to administer the IBM Business School in the mid-1990s.

“Howard Hills is a active adviser with operational acquaintance in the Royal Navy and, later, as arch of training at Lloyds TSB. Despite abundant demands on his time, he has – back November 2006 – adherent abundant of his time to the eLN where, a allotment of added things, he took the advance in adorning and convalescent the belief for anticipation the E-Learning Awards if these were in their infancy,” Shepherd continued.

“Jan Seabrook – acclaimed not just as an advisory artist but as a antecedent of advice to those entering the profession – has alveolate up about a division of a century’s architecture experience. Since she abutting the eLN board in 2002, she has fabricated a abundant addition as co-ordinator of all the association’s ‘live’ events.”

The eight associates of the eLN board in 2008 who will abide to serve in 2009 are: Clive Shepherd (Fastrak Consulting); Mike Alcock (Atlantic Link); Viv Cole (Academy Internet); Neil Lasher (Trainer1); Claire Line (Lovells); Joe Quilter (PSP learnix); Barry Sampson (Web Based Thinking), and Seb Schmoller (Association for Learning Technology).

This year – 2008 – has not alone apparent aberrant antagonism for places on the eLN’s council board but has aswell apparent a arresting acceleration in eLN associates levels from about 150 to over 1,000. The eLN enrolled its 1,000th affiliate - Monique Head, an American from Atlanta, Georgia, who is now active in Antibes in the South of France – in November.

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The eLearning Network (eLN), which adopted this appellation in 2000, is the UK’s foremost able affiliation of users and developers of all forms of e-learning. It is a non-profit authoritative anatomy that exists to advance advice and best convenance a allotment of all those who are complex in the e-learning world, as able-bodied as act as a networking average for its members.