UK Training Industry Press Releases

Research is pushing back the frontiers of e-learning, allying the real and virtual worlds to enhance the learning experience.

Leading edge research under the 36 month, 12.9m Euro project awarded by the European Commission to a Consortium of 13 leading European organisations is close to using grid and cloud computing to provide the computing resources to bring learners together in both the real and virtual worlds. Known as the Interactive Realtime Multimedia Applications on Service Oriented Infrastructures (IRMOS) Project, the project recently passed its first - 12 month - review in a plenary meeting, held in Brussels, where European Commission representatives and an international panel of experts reviewed the first results of the project.

 

Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, Giunti Labs - one of the 13 companies involved in the IRMOS Project, revealed these preliminary results at the ‘Immersive Education Summit' - held at the London School of Economics in London on 23^rd and 24^th April.

The project aims to develop ‘real-time' interaction between people and applications over a service oriented infrastructure (SOI), where processing, storage and networking need to be combined and delivered with guaranteed levels of service.