New Year, New Member for Learning Lab
Added: (Tue Feb 17 2004)
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The Learning Lab, the UK’s leading centre for free, independent advice on e-learning, is pleased to announce four new members.
The Learning Lab has earned a world-class reputation based on its members’ profile and the services it offers to both the public and private sectors. Working in partnership with industry, with public sector organisations and with providers of e-Learning products and solutions, the Learning Lab is a unique resource for all learning organisations.
We are delighted to present four new members: Warwick Ventures Enterprise Fellowship Scheme, fuel, Scran and Sentient Learning. Prof Steve Molyneux, Director of the Learning Lab, was enthusiastic about the Learning Lab’s growth over the past 12 months. “As an internationally regarded centre of e-Learning, the Learning Lab has shown its commitment to both industry and education and its reputation is clearly reflected in the steadily increasing levels of membership.”
Speaking about their recent membership, Steve Dineen, Chief Executive of fuel stated, “fuel’s core business lies in the production of custom built e-learning educational content and online software training. Due to our thorough understanding and application of the principles of educational psychology, the content is highly effective at bringing about sustainable behavioural change amongst its target audience. Membership of the Learning Lab will help us to keep up-to-date with the latest in learning technologies, ensuring we continue to bring the best quality products to our customers”.
Sentient Learning’s Managing Director, Andrew Davidson, said, “We strive to provide the most innovative solutions to universities & colleges to enhance interoperability between core systems and improve accessibility to vital learning resources. Our membership with Learning Lab will support us in our mission to enhance the quality of learning and teaching worldwide.” Sentient DISCOVER integrates course management systems, library management systems, OpenURL Resolvers and content repositories. For additional information about the benefits of Sentient DISCOVER, visit: www.sentientlearning.com
Newest member, Scran, an award-winning learning image website, provides access to over 300,000 quality images, an extensive range of audio/video pieces together with a broad variety of learning resources. Chief Executive, Alan Blunt, said, “Scran, as a world leading educational charity, delivers repurposable educational resources from the nation's extensive art, cultural, social and natural heritage to a broad audience ranging from nursery through to established lifelong learners. Subscribers include all the local authority primary, secondary and special schools in Scotland; schools, LEA’s, Higher and Further Education across the UK along with home and international users.
“The broad range of material found on www.scran.ac.uk has been sourced a range of museums, libraries, archives, galleries and commercial sources in the UK and beyond. In conjunction with explanatory texts, material is packaged in a variety of educational specific solutions as well as tailored to cater to the individual needs of lifelong learners.
“Learning Lab membership will significantly support us in sustaining our leading edge technology, standards and learning applications for our globally based educational users”.
A flexible membership package has been agreed with Warwick Ventures, who have joined on behalf of companies involved in the Enterprise Fellowship Scheme (EFS). EFS, is a scheme designed to support alumni, staff and students of the universities of Central England, Coventry, Keele, Staffordshire, Warwick and Wolverhampton to explore a business idea and develop it into commercial reality. Launched in the West Midlands in 1999, the scheme produced 14 thriving businesses out of its initial 21 fellows. Speaking about their reasons for joining the Learning Lab, Sue Heath, EFS Project Co-ordinator, said, “Membership of the Learning Lab will enable start-up businesses on the scheme who are involved in e-Learning initiatives to network with many successful e-Learning organisations. The potential opportunities open to our fellows are huge.”
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Additional information:
The Learning Lab is a not-for-profit organisation set up to support individuals and organisations involved in the design, development and use of technology in education and training. It is supported by key players within the industry. Current members of the Learning Lab include: Apple, AstraZeneca, CISCO systems, Granada Learning, Harcourt Education, Institute of Financial Services, Learning & Skills Council, Microsoft Education, NETg, Support IT, Plato Learning, Reading College, Rhema Consultants Ltd, Research Machines, Synetrix, THINQ, Ufi Ltd, University of Wolverhampton, XMA Ltd.
Professor Molyneux is recognised as one of the UK’s leading consultants in the use of technologies to support education, training and the transformation of communities in the Knowledge-Economy. He is currently Director of the Learning Lab and Director of the ADL Partnership Lab (UK) as well as holding a visiting Professorship and Senior Fellowship at the University of Wolverhampton’s Centre for Learning and Teaching. Amongst his many government advisory roles he was a member of the Government’s post-16 e-Learning Strategy Task Force and is chairman of the national Broadband Stakeholder Group’s education sub-committee. In 2002 he was the only academic named in a leading computer magazine’s Top 10 IT hall of fame. He lives in Oakengates in Telford where he is also a Justice of the Peace.
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More information on the Learning Lab and its services can be found at www.learninglab.org.uk or by calling Liz Fleetham, the Lab Manager, on (01902) 323932.