2009年12月16日星期三

Giunti Labs - ELIG sets acquirements priorities in Europe for 2009

Exploring a acute eyes of acquirements in the 21st century; demonstrating how ‘learning’ can ensure bread-and-butter adaptation in the ablaze of the accepted all-around banking crisis, and announcement technology for ‘upskilling’ acquirements as able-bodied as architecture ability and abilities aural able communities are the priorities for The European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) in 2009. These priorities were agreed at the organisation’s anniversary accepted affair (AGM), which was captivated in Sestri Levante, Italy, at the end of October and hosted by Giunti Labs, a arch acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration band-aid provider, whose CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali, is armchair of ELIG.

ELIG’s Secretary General, Richard Straub, categorical ELIG’s achievements in 2007/08 – exploring the bazaar for e-learning in the Near East and North Africa; establishing a amount of alive groups, as able-bodied as accessible action groups which had captivated approved affairs with European Union (EU) officials.

The 50 or assembly at the AGM, fatigued from the group’s associates of leaders in the acreage of acquirements aural the EU, aswell heard Elmar Husmann, a chief action adviser to ELIG, explain that ELIG needs to re-think its accession with commendations to the EU. Husmann stated: “E-learning has abundantly abolished from the EU action agenda.

“Consequently, we charge to crop a broader eyes of next bearing acquirements that is enabled by advice and communications technology. This will cover acknowledging breezy acquirements and ability conception via amusing networks.”

Earlier, assembly heard the angle of anticipation leaders in acquirements from the USA and Europe, including Rob Abel, CEO of the IMS Global Learning Consortium; Pascal Debordes, e-learning Director of Cegos; Michael King, Vice President of Global Education Industry for IBM, and David Worlock, Chief Research Fellow at Outsell, Inc.

Worlock appear that, according to Outsell statistics, the advice industry grew by 6.6 per cent in 2007 to ability $390bn globally.

Within this sector, the greatest amount of advance is in seek accession and alliance – which is growing annually at 26 per cent. The next fastest growing area is HR advice (15.4 per cent)

“The accepted bazaar is abounding of discontinuities,” he observed. “What will change this is the advance of affectionate and alone purchasing ability for acquirements materials; custom publishing, and the accepted recession putting burden on organisatons to actuate the accurate acknowledgment on investment of both acquirements and assessment.”

Debordes categorical the allegation of Cegos’s analysis into the accumulated acquirements markets in EU countries. He revealed: “We begin that the better budgets for accumulated training action in France but abundant of this money is spent on administering rather than on training.

“The UK spends about a third of French budgets on training but provides its workers with broader acceptance to training abstracts – and appears to be bigger at evaluating the acknowledgment on investment (ROI) from these. Forty seven per cent of surveyed companies in the UK are assessing ROI compared with alone 26 per cent in France.

“Nonetheless, learners above Europe accept the aforementioned expectations of e-learning abstracts – conspicuously that they are user-friendly; accept top above content, design, cartoon and interactivity, and accommodate ‘concrete’ examples and exercises,” he said.

King observed: “Open belvedere apprenticeship is the engine of addition in the 21st aeon – abnormally since, amid 2010 and 2020, the USA, Europe, Japan, China and India are predicted to face a arrears of some 32m well-educated, technically specialised professionals. Consequently, apprenticeship should accredit accessible acceptance for all; animate accessible abstracts and business processes; advance accessible communities of acquirements and accessible technologies to bear the learning.”

Abel discussed three areas aural acquirements area standards are accepting set: content; applications, and apprentice administration. Among the key issues, he said, were how you admeasurement the acknowledgment on investment in acquirements technology and how educational institutions are developing technology action for acknowledging improvements in access, affordability and above of educational experiences.

The ELIG AGM assured with three blemish sessions, facilitated by Richard Straub, Elmar Husmann and Matty Smith, of Henley Business School and a Senior Advisor to ELIG.

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Giunti Labs is a arch Online and Mobile Learning Content Management Solutions provider with all-around address in Italy and offices in London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Lund (Sweden), Boston (US), as able-bodied as Sydney and Perth (Australia).

Giunti Labs provides a advanced ambit of solutions, in acknowledgment to any content, acquirements and ability administration need, covering:
•24/7 multi accent acquirements agreeable production
•LCMS and Digital Repository Platforms
•Delivery solutions for adaptable & wireless
•Consulting and able casework

Giunti Labs is allotment of Giunti Group, a arch educational and cultural ancestry administrator with roots aback to 1841. Over the years Giunti has complete a archive of huge ambit (over 7.000 titles) and acquired new brands in Italy and worldwide.

In 2008, Giunti Labs acquired the HarvestRoad Hive agenda athenaeum system, which manages any anatomy of agreeable acclimated in online learning, accumulated training and ability administration initiatives. HarvestRoad Hive can interface with about any ERP, Learning or Course Management System and is already chip with several frequently acclimated advance administration systems, assembly and agreeable accumulation tools.

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