The slides from the presentations made at the Irish Learning Showcase 2010 are now available in the Irish Learning Alliance downloads section at http://www.irishlearningalliance.net/downloads .

Speakers from across the globe presented on topics including “From E-Learning to WE-Learning”, “40 Best Practices for Creating an Empowered Enterprise” and “Why Projects Fail and What Successful Projects Have In Common”.

Please feel free to comment and give us your feedback on the insights in these presentations.

“For all the risk involved, this is a great time to be involved in learning.”

- Donald H Taylor

The 2010 Irish Learning Showcase (ILS), Dublin, Ireland, July 22-24 was kicked-off with an enthusiastic opening address by Donald H. Taylor; chairman, Institute of IT Training and Learning Technologies Conference. Taylor’s comments provided an ideal opening platform for the presentations, sessions and interaction that followed over the next three days of the ILS. [A copy of Mr. Taylor's comments are available in our Downloads section.]

An over-arching theme of the 2010 ILS was “informal learning and social learning”.

Taylor’s talk illustrated the dynamic changes – economic, technological, cultural, leadership- that shaped the Learning and Development (L&D) field over the last three decades.  Today there is greater recognition by organizations and executives of the importance of education, training and skills development. Yet, the industry sits at a cross roads with significant opportunities to deliver new products, solutions, services, software and results that meet today’s dynamic and diverse learning and development needs and demands.

Now in its fourth year, the ILS brings together executives, thought-leaders, educators, technologists, vendors, and L&D professional from throughout the EU, the Americas, Asia and Africa to discuss, collaborate and highlight the increasing need for specialized software, services and expertise in the field.

PREVIEW: Ireland’s eLearning Competence Centre

Along with formal and informal presentations, networking and opportunities to meet with vendors and service providers; Enterprise Ireland and the Irish Learning Alliance gave ILS participants a special preview of the Ireland’s eLearning Competence Centre.

EXTENDING THE REACH

2010 Irish Learning Showcase was huge success for everyone involved. It yielded a wealth of new connections, networking, insights, collaboration and sharing. Over the coming weeks we’ll be compiling data, feedback from participants, speaker presentations, follow-up blogs and publications and more. In doing so – and with your involvement – we’ll extend the reach of the Summit; its learning and outcomes, community, and ideally connection and collaboration. Stay tuned!

If you’ve got stories or information to share please let us know.

ILA members ThirdForce and WBT Systems will be exhibiting at the Learning Technologies Conference next week. To find out more about these award winning companies and be in with a chance to win an iphone 3GS, please visit both their stands. (ThirdForce – First Floor – Stand 77 and WBT Systems – First Floor – Stand 49.)

This is one in a series of short posts featuring commentary from attendees of our recent Irish Learning Showcase event in Dublin, December 2nd & 3rd 2009.

This entry is by Niamh Farrell, Paris, France:

“The French guests who attended were greatly impressed by the innovations of the Irish Learning Alliance, the networking opportunities and the efficiency of the truly global team which organised the event.”

This is one in a series of short posts featuring commentary from attendees of our recent Irish Learning Showcase event in Dublin, December 2nd & 3rd 2009.

This entry is by Maria Maguire, Sydney, Austrialia:

“This year was the first time that any country from Asia Pacific has taken part in the Irish Learning Alliance Showcase. I was truly impressed by the high level of senior executives the event attracted from around the globe and how smoothly the event went. The event not only highlighted the capabilities of Ireland’s E-Learning companies but reinforced the collaboration between the Enterprise Ireland global team members who all took part to make such a worthwhile and enjoyable event.”

This is one in a series of short posts featuring commentary from attendees of our recent Irish Learning Showcase event in Dublin, December 2nd & 3rd 2009.

This entry is by Patrick Torrekens, BENELUX Region:

“BENELUX senior executives were impressed by the innovation capability of the Irish e-learning companies. They recognized that in-depth research has lead to true product innovation. The application areas for this innovation spread way beyond the traditional employer/employee e-learning. It opens perspectives from more efficient communication between all stakeholders in the corporate world.”