‘Show Report’...

The purpose of this event, held at London’s historic Royal Institution, was:

1. To share and validate our work on Learning Architectures with practitioners from many different business sectors – the learning architects of their organisations.
2. To advance our mutual understanding of the Learning Architectures concept through group work in a series of structured workshops.

The day was a great success, both from LINE’s point of view and also, to judge by the many positive comments that were received, from that of the participating learning architects.

We found a great deal of support for our belief in the importance of thinking architecturally, and also learned more abut the importance of learning culture to nurturing this approach.
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At this year’s World of Learning Conference & Exhibition LINE chose to focus on the topic of mobile learning.

A poll taken among the conference delegates at Piers Lea and Tim Drewitt’s presentation showed that this focus was well justified. Asked when they were intending to implement m-learning, 23% said within 6 months, 37% within a year, 33% within two years and 7% within three years.

Along with a well-attended exhibition stand appearance, LINE gave talks at the conference and on the main exhibition floor around the theme of mobile and cross-platform learning. At the core of both these presentations were three views of a multi-platform world which, taken as a series, and illustrated by copious practical examples drawn from LINE’s work with clients, show how the learning community is maturing in its use of mobile devices for learning and communications.

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John Helmer documents the key events of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) AGM

As an industry, it has to be said that we don’t always communicate well with business leaders and policy-makers outside our own special interest ‘pool’.

We speak a strange, arcane language, impenetrable to outsiders. We engage in fiercely contested debates about subjects close to our hearts – but clearly less close to those of baffled onlookers, for whom they must seem about as relevant to what’s happening at the contemporary workface, sometimes, as the War of Jenkin’s Ear. We suffer from an addiction to buzzwords – and currently have a dangerous tendency to retail a particular species of pop/bad science that is coming to be known in scientific circles as ‘neurotrash’.

So it’s with a certain amount of relief that one turns to a networking forum where a lot of the talk is instead about actual business results – and getting across the real value of what technology can do in supporting learning and communications to those external parties who govern and influence the context within which we all live and work.
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Keith Downes, Director, Defence Lead, assesses LINE’s presence at the largest Defence Training and Simulation Conference and Exhibition in Europe.

LINE has been exhibiting at ITEC, Europe’s largest Defence Training and Simulation Conference and Exhibition, for five years now, and I can honestly say that this was our busiest and best year so far. There is a lot of excitement and interest around mobile learning in Defence at the moment, and LINE was in a position to be able to show some cutting-edge examples; showcasing course content that we have developed for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and on a brand-spanking-new iPad.
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Sean Nugent reviews iVentiv’s Learning & Talent Executive Knowledge Exchange, which took place 8-9 February 2010 in Brussels, Belgium.

iVentiv continues to run well organised events that attract industry leaders, a record of success that LINE has supported by sponsoring the event for the last two years. Delegates this time were from a wide range of sectors and countries including representation from Lufthansa, Volvo, NATO, BP, Hitachi, Toyota and the EU Commission.

The main theme of the conference was Talent Management; a term which seems to mean different things to different people, but at the heart of it is the issue of how an organisation defines leadership. 21^st century leaders need to be flexible, adaptive, consultative and above all visionary. In terms of training leaders, organisations need to adopt more creative and dynamic approaches to developing talent suitable to become tomorrow’s leaders.
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This year’s Learning Technologies exhibition and conference at Olympia was busier than ever, with the organiser reporting an estimated 50% increase in pre-registrations on last year’s show. Certainly the aisles seemed rammed (particularly around the LINE stand, gratifyingly). The exhibition has grown in size, of course, with the addition of the new Learning & Skills event co-located on the floor below, adding extra visitors, exhibitors and floor seminars.

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Steve Ash and Sean Nugent review highlights from the 15th ONLINE EDUCA Conference on Technology Supported Learning & Training.

Drawing over 2,000 delegates from 92 countries, Online Educa is one of the largest conferences in the industry calendar.

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