Sestri Levante (I), May 2007 - Giunti Labs is hosting a workshop in collaboration with the Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee (AICC), Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), the IMS Global Learning Consortium, the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) of MIT Boston, and the European Learning Industry Group (Elig). The workshop, called "Training in Action", is being held at the MediaTerraneo Conference Centre in Sestri Levante, near Genoa, on the northwest Italian Riviera, on 7th and 8th June.
Participation in the workshop is free - but by invitation only - for Europe's key players in this field and those who have a genuine interest in the application of technology to human capital development and technical training in order to meet business objectives.
The workshop will mix "state-of-the-present" presentations from leading corporate and multinational organisations and "scenes-from-the-future" scenarios presented by leading EU R&D projects in the fields of mobile learning, wearable training, and performance support. This will be followed by a set of ten thematic "roundtables" on the "top ten" topics in innovative learning.
"New economies engender new challenges. New challenges generate new training needs," explained Fabrizio Cardinali, Giunti Labs' CEO. "Industry workforces today need new learning paradigms, technologies, and standards to help them develop their skills and competencies more effectively and efficiently and support their jobs at the pace made necessary by today's global challenges."
"Accelerating the adoption of innovative training methodologies, technologies, and standards is becoming a 'must' for those international organisations needing to compete and survive in today's knowledge society, while tackling the market forces that are underpinning today's global economies," he added. "Technologies such as eLearning, mobile learning, wearable training, role play simulations, and performance-support systems can improve such action."
