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Towards a unified e-learning strategy

Microsoft's Head of Public Sector Innovation, Chris Yapp, will explore how the educational infrastructure can develop to meet the needs of the UK economy at the Learning Technologies 2005 Conference. Yapp will lead the second of four conference tracks, 'Enabling Technologies'.

In the session, Yapp will examine the greater learning environment to suggest that e-learning can transform the experience of education. By exploring the demands for an increasingly highly skilled workforce, he will look at how the UK's current educational infrastructure needs to be re-engineered in order to make it responsive to the needs of the economy, and have the learner at its centre.

Yapp will examine not only the technological, but also the cultural changes this will require. He also, of course, will considers the potential pitfalls.

Conference organiser, Mark Penton, said: "It's not about the technology, it's about the learner, we all know that, but how can the technology help? The Enabling Technologies track explores the detail of how learning and development systems and software can be implemented to assist learners and organisations in achieving their goals."

In a change from previous years, the Learning Technologies 2005 conference will feature three session types, each lasting for one hour:

• Plenary sessions - one speaker addressing the entire conference
• Main sessions - one topic but with two speaker presentations, as in previous years
• Master classes - highly interactive sessions for smaller groups

The Learning Technologies 2005 conference divides into four themes: Tomorrow's Trends; Effective Learning and Development; - Setting Strategy and Adding Value; and Enabling Technologies. Each theme consists of one plenary session, two main sessions and two master classes.

External link

The complete conference program, details of each session, booking information and details of group discounts are available at:
http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/conference/programme.cfm

Learning Technologies 2005 Exhibition and Conference
Olympia 2, London
Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th January 2005
10.00am - 5.00pm daily

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