UK Training Industry Press Releases

Exploring a compelling vision of learning in the 21^st century; demonstrating how ‘learning' can ensure economic survival in the light of the current global financial crisis, and promoting technology for ‘upskilling' learning as well as building knowledge and skills within professional communities are the priorities for The European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) in 2009. These priorities were agreed at the organisation's annual general meeting (AGM), which was held in Sestri Levante, Italy, at the end of October and hosted by Giunti Labs, a leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, whose CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali, is chair of ELIG.

ELIG's Secretary General, Richard Straub, outlined ELIG's achievements in 2007/08 - exploring the market for e-learning in the Near East and North Africa; establishing a number of working groups, as well as public policy groups which had held regular meetings with European Union (EU) officials.

The 50 or delegates at the AGM, drawn from the group's membership of leaders in the field of learning within the EU, also heard Elmar Husmann, a senior policy advisor to ELIG, explain that ELIG needs to re-think its positioning with regards to the EU. Husmann stated: "E-learning has largely disappeared from the EU policy agenda.

"Consequently, we need to take a broader vision of next generation learning that is enabled_bool by information and communications technology. This will include supporting informal learning and knowledge creation via social networks."