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Tata Interactive Learning Forum explores key trends

London, UK28 Mar 2006Learning NewsMPS Interactive Systems

The third Tata Interactive Learning Forum, being held at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, in London, on 6th April, will bring together companies from across the UK and Europe to discuss the industry's key trends and issues. Attendance is by invitation only.

The third Tata Interactive Learning Forum, being held at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, in London, on 6th April, will bring together companies from across the UK and Europe to discuss the industry's key trends and issues.

Speakers including Gary Dickleman, president and CEO of EPSS Central; Germany's top business simulations expert, Christiane Zimmer; Terry Lehmann, of Baker Hughes Oilfield Services, based in Houston, Texas, and Charles Jennings, of Reuters, will speak on topics covering:
• Living in a simulated world - looking at the increasing use of simulations in e-learning and examining their ability to meet both business and learning objectives.
• Planning and developing e-learning programmes for roll-out effectively across large organisations and to large audiences.
• Performance support - examining the situations in which performance support is most effective and the benefits it brings.
• Measuring e-learning - exploring the business case for e-learning.

The conference format is expected to be highly interactive, with discussion and debate by the audience and a panel of experts including:
• Toby Thomson, of Cranfield University,
• Jane Knight, founder of the e-Learning Centre and now head of research for Learning Light and
• Market analysts David Wilson, of elearnity, and Steve Rayson, of Kineo.

Sanjaya Sharma, CEO of Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) and Manoj Kutty, TIS's worldwide president of sales and marketing, will be on hand to provide a worldwide perspective on other key e-learning issues, including the growth in popularity of story-based e-learning.

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