| January 08 Newsletter |
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Contents this month: 1. Rapid E-learning workshops: London and Sheffield 2. E-learning predictions 2008: Place your bets 3. Learning Technologies: See the stand, hear the seminar… 4. Kineo update: New year, new office, new people 5. Market update: Ambient report 6. Introducing Kineo in 2 minutes Editor's note: Hi, Welcome to 2008, though you should be well into your resolutions list by now…. This month we’ve asked a few of the e-learning industry’s pundits to share their predictions on what’s going to happen in e-learning in 2008, and to who. On our to-do list for this year was to get out more. We’re off to a good start: this week you can meet us at Learning Technologies in London. Next month we’re running three rapid e-learning seminars in London and Sheffield. We are also delighted to announce our new office in Sheffield. As we continue to serve more and more clients outside the UK, we’re also announcing our move to a .com website. So we’ll be getting out a whole lot more in 2008. See you on the road… Best, --------------------------------------------------- 1. Rapid E-learning Workshops: February 13th in London, February 21st in Sheffield We’re spreading the word about Rapid E-learning at two workshops at MLS Covent Garden in London on February 13th and at our new office in Sheffield on February 21st. The London morning session will focus on Rapid E-learning for financial services and regulatory compliance. We’ll share some recent case studies and examples of how we’ve partnered with clients to develop effective Rapid E-learning. The London afternoon session and the Sheffield session will explain how to make the most of Rapid E-learning tools and techniques to bring a rapid approach into your organisation. Attendance is free at these events, but space is limited. To assure your place and find out more, email us at info@kineo.com 2. E-learning predictions 2008: Place your bets If there’s one thing you can predict with absolute certainty in e-learning, it’s that there will be quite a few prediction lists doing the rounds in January. We hate to be left out…. We’ve gone back to some of the experts who did such a fine job of predicting e-learning for us in 2007 to see if they can keep their game up for 2008. For your futuristic pleasure, here are their thoughts - e-learning predictions 2008.
3. Learning Technologies: See the stand, hear the seminar… If it’s January it must Learning Technologies. It’s this Wednesday and Thursday at London Olympia 2. It’s really become the only must-attend show if you’re interested in e-learning in the UK. Stand 71 is where you’ll find us. We’re running a free seminar on ‘Rapid E-learning: The real story’. Come and hear us explain how it all works. The seminar’s at 12.30 on Wednesday 30th January in theatre 2. Admission is free. Hope to see you there. More about Learning Technologies here: http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/ 4. Kineo update: New year, new office, new people The Kineo team is growing quickly in 2008 and we’re delighted to share some updates: Director of Operations: We’re delighted to welcome Nick Reed as our Director of Operations. Nick joins us from Capita where he heads the Blended Learning development team, and takes up his new role at Kineo at the start of February. Nick’s previous roles include Senior Training Analyst at Lloyds TSB e-learning team and a Project Leader at Epic E-learning. Nick is one of the most experienced e-learning managers around in the industry today and we’re delighted to have him on board to support our growth plans in 2008 and beyond. New Sheffield office: To serve key clients in the region, including Ufi/learndirect, we’re delighted to announce a new office in Sheffield. Highly experienced e-learning professional Wendy Weller-Davies has been appointed Project Director for Sheffield. Wendy has over 20 years of industry experience with previous roles at Wendy previously worked at Learning Light, Tata Interactive Systems and ACT. It’s great to have her as part of the Sheffield team. With two universities and a thriving local digital and creative industry, we’re looking forward to adding to our team in Sheffield. As mentioned above, we’ll be running a free seminar on rapid e-learning at their new offices at Sheffield Technology Parks on 21st February 2008. For more information contact Wendy at wendy.weller.davies@kineo.com We also welcome Matt Leathes as senior technical consultant. Matt has many years of experience in e-learning, most recently at Epic. We’re delighted to have him as part of our technical team. 4. Market update: Ambient Report This month we take a look at Ambient's new e-learning market report. Overall they predict growth of 22% in the e-learning market and some great opportunities for nimble suppliers. If you are an enterprise installed LMS provider or software tools vendor though you may want to look away now…. Check out the market update here: http://www.kineo.com/e-learning-market/e-learning-market-update-january-08-.html
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