UK Training Industry Press Releases

Giunti Labs, a leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, recently welcomed some 100 delegates from around the world to its Hive DR and learn eXact LCMS Joint User Group conference, held in Sestri Levante, Italy.

Following an introduction to the event, given by Fabrizio Cardinali, Giunti Labs' CEO, Michael King, Vice President of IBM Global Education Industry, observed: "Open platform education is the engine of innovation in the 21^st century - especially since, between 2010 and 2020, the USA, Europe, Japan, China and India are predicted to face a shortfall of some 32m well-educated, technically specialised professionals. Consequently, education should enable open access for all; encourage open data and business processes; promote open communities of learning and open technologies to deliver the learning."

King outlined three trends:

• Demand for ‘learning outcomes' and pressures on costs are leading to an industry which is increasingly integrated student-centric.
• Consumer information technology (IT) will drive learner expectations of technology-delivered learning.
• Open technologies and standards will continue to drive enterprise IT innovation.