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Learning Light Ltd
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15th July 2014
International company searches for UK e-learning suppliers
In a move designed to attract potential high quality e-learning
suppliers from the UK, EdTrIn, the global online education provider,
is holding an event at the Australian High Commission in London,
from 9am to 10.30am on 25th July.
EdTrIn, which is advised on
strategy by market analysts Learning Light - an organisation which
also helps organisations to improve their business performance via
e-learning and learning technologies - hopes that the event will:
- Encourage education and training content providers - including
universities and colleges; corporate training organisations, and
professional associations - to use the EdTrIn platform to deliver
their products and services internationally
- Increase awareness of EdTrIn among the edtech community in the UK
and Europe
- Attract interest from the edtech investment community; the UK
Government, and its agencies
In addition to an introduction by EdTrIn's CEO, Graeme Coomber,
guests at the event will hear from other EdTrIn senior executives
including Dr Abdul Khan (COO, global education and training
solutions) and Jim Dickson (Director, UK acquisitions).
Born in India and with a PhD in mass communication from the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, Dr Abdul Khan has lengthy
international experience in designing, planning and managing
information and communications technology (ICT) applications for
education, the sciences, culture, agriculture and rural development.
A former Assistant Director-General for Communication and
Information for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) from 2001 to 2010, Dr Khan was also
Vice-Chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Open University
(India) - a university which, today, serves the educational
aspirations of over 4m students in India and 36 other countries
through 21 Schools of Studies and a network of 67 regional centres,
around 3,000 learner support centres and 67 overseas centres.
In addition to hearing a presentation from Dr Abdul Khan, delegates
will also hear about the corporate e-learning market in China, from
David Patterson, a Director of Learning Light. David is one of the
authors of a recently published report -
A Review of the e-learning
markets of the UK, EU and China 2014.
'In 2011, China's GDP represented 11.77% of the world economy. Its
education and training markets were valued at some US$220bn,' said
David. 'The number of potential adult learners in the country
appears to have grown at a rate of some 18%, year on year, from 2006
until 2010 – and now seems to be growing at an even faster rate.
'Our research indicates that the past year has seen the Chinese
e-learning market grow more than in any other year to date,' he
added. 'Employees are changing their learning habits, prompted by
the increasing use of evolving learning technologies, and companies
are, increasingly, developing their own e-learning content.
'As the Learning Light report illustrates, there's not just a large
and growing market for learning in China but budgets exist to
provide that learning,' he said. 'This rapid market growth in
e-learning - along with similar growth in other of the world's
economies – is providing the impetus for EdTrIn's initiative.'
EdTrIn has recently opened its Australian Education Development and
Operational Headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, to market online
learning technologies and materials to the Asia Pacific market -
especially to Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and
Myanmar.
David Patterson commented: 'EdTrIn is a ground-breaking education
platform that delivers any content to any student anywhere in the
world - and provides learners worldwide with the ability to manage
their education and training needs for life. We're delighted to be
partnering and advising EdTrIn as it develops its business -
sourcing and supplying the best quality online learning products to
an increasingly worldwide market.'
For further details of the event at the Australian High Commission
on 25th July, contact David Patterson at Learning Light or
Graeme Coomber at EdTrIn.
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About EdTrIn
EdTrIn is a delivery and marketing platform for demand side
education, training and innovation development. Its solution has
been designed to provide solutions for students, businesses and
governments. The EdTrin delivery platform is the only e-learning
environment that has the capability to deliver blended learning
solutions via the internet (PC, tablet or smartphone) and/or the
digital broadcast TV media in any combination, facilitating both
urban and rural coverage.
EdTrIn is run by a management team comprising senior former UNESCO
executives, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and experienced education
professionals who, between them, have built six online universities
and have over 90 years' experience in delivering disruptive change
in the industry.
About Learning Light Ltd
Sheffield-based Learning Light, founded, in 2005, provides advice
and help to organisations using e-learning and learning technologies
to improve their business performance. It's one of the few
organisations in Europe that publishes regular research on the
e-learning market - notably publishing in-depth reports on the UK
and European e-learning markets, encompassing market size, growth
projections and technology trends.
Learning Light's research has been used widely by Governments to
inform economic policy; by universities and education
establishments; by journalists; by investors evaluating new
opportunities and by other research organisations.
Learning Light provides support for clients at all stages of an
e-learning project and also offers ready-developed e-learning
courses in a variety of topics, as well as a range of courses for
the engineering, manufacturing, waste management and recycling
sectors. It is a WAMITAB Approved Centre to deliver qualifications.
Further information from:
David Patterson/ Gill Broadhead, Learning Light, +44 (0)114 307
2357/2368
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405
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