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Innovate to Compete: Advancing Online Industry Training and Corporate Education in Europe
The latest learning delivery technologies in Europe include mobile learning via wearable computers, the interaction of learners with remote coaches via mobile technology and virtual worlds and the increasing use of serious games and simulations. These will be the key themes at ‘Innovate to Compete’, the conference session chaired by Fabrizio Cardinali, the co-chair of the European Learning Industry Group (eLIG) and CEO of Giunti Labs, Europe's leading e-learning and mobile-learning content- management technologies provider, at this year’s Online Educa Berlin. The session will explore the challenges, threats and opportunities for industry training and corporate learning in today’s ‘Knowledge Society’; the importance of standards such as AICC, SCORM, OKI as well as innovation applying learning technologies – through a series of case studies from across Europe. Volkswagen, Ikea, Ericsson and L’Oreal will be among the presenters of innovative as well as more traditional e-learning solutions to foster EU industries’ greater competitiveness in worldwide markets. Fabrizio Cardinali will address the issue of how organisations can train their knowledge workers to help them compete effectively in today’s Knowledge Society. To do this, European workforces need new learning paradigms, technologies and standards to help them develop ever greater skills and competencies, Cardinali believes. They must also develop these skills and competencies faster, more effectively and more efficiently. Companies will need to adopt international standards to enable the interoperability of systems and software, thus providing common ‘information space’ into which learners can tap. Cardinali comments, “Since everyone in our society has valuable knowledge, skills and abilities, we shouldn’t ‘write off’ anyone. This means that we need to make learning opportunities available to all in order for them to develop to their fullest capabilities – and this raises accessibility issues where learning is concerned.” The challenge is to shift to user-centred learning solutions that can be adapted to an individual’s learning needs. Many of these issues can be addressed through the application of emerging learning technologies, especially through location-based mobile solutions, games, simulations and virtual worlds. Innovations in learning such as these should help European organisations to remain competitive in the world economy, despite increasing competition from elsewhere.
Bob Little is an internationally known writer and commentator on e-learning technology.
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The European Learning Industry Group, eLIG, is an open consortium of leading information and communications technology (ICT) companies and e-learning content providers who seek to promote e-learning throughout Europe, in schools, universities, the workplace and homes.
