UK Training Industry Press Releases

September 30^th saw the inaugural e-learning debate at the Oxford Union. The event was attended by over 250 of the UK's leading learning technology professionals, who witnessed a stimulating debate on the motion, "This house believes that the e-learning of today is essential for the important skills of tomorrow".

Epic, the UK's leading bespoke e-learning company, successfully organised the debate, the first of its kind, which saw its own industry come under scrutiny from a number of world renowned training and development professionals.

The debate was chaired by Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC's technology correspondent, and led by Professor Diana Laurillard arguing for the motion and Dr Marc Rosenberg against it.  In the debating chamber, a packed audience spent nearly two hours listening to the impassioned pleas and logical reasoning of a wide range of speakers drawn from the learning and development field. A number of participants changed their minds many times during the debate and in the end the ‘noes' took it, with 90 in favour of the motion but 144 against.