European Learning Industry Group establishes new Advisory Board
A high calibre group of thought leaders and experts has been brought together by Europe's top learning advocacy group to further enhance its mission to promote innovation in learning, knowledge creation and dissemination.
The ELIG Advisory Board has been established in order to ensure that ELIG takes into account the views of the full ecosystem for knowledge and learning solutions. The Board will include views represented by thought leaders from the various user segments as well as from education and research. The Advisory Board comprises leaders who are interested in the dialogue with the learning industry and who are prepared to provide input to ELIG priorities and direction.
In particular the Advisory Board will bring access thought leadership, expert feedback on projects or topics under review, input on public policy priorities, input on ELIG's research agenda and market intelligence from the user perspective
Richard Straub, secretary general of ELIG who will Chair the Advisory Board said: "We are fortunate to have this outstanding group as a sounding board for the industry. We will listen carefully to the advice we get and align our industry strategies accordingly. In today's world innovation becomes increasingly co-creation with advanced users - learning and knowledge services are obvious examples for these increasingly open processes."
ELIG's new Advisory Board will complete a realignment of the Group that has focused on ensuring full representation of the knowledge and learning industry value chain. In addition, through a series of strategic partnerships ELIG has aligned itself with a number of key European and Middle East organisations which will further complement its capabilities.
The ELIG Executive Committee
Michael Auer, Head of the Center of Competence, Online Laboratories, Carinthia University
Roberto Carneiro, Dean, Institute for Distance Learning, Portugal
Pierre Dillenbourg, Professor of Education and New Training Technologies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL
Jim Herbolich, Director of Networked Services, EFMD
Theo Hug, Professor of Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck; Coordinator: Innsbruck Media Studies Research Group
Charles Jennings, Director of Duntroon Associates, former Chief Learning Officer, Reuters
Nikitas Kastis, Director, Lambrakis Foundation and President of MENON Network
Mary Mallon, Development Manager, Curriculum Services at C2k
Lutz Michel, Chairman of D-ELAN, Owner & MD MMB Institute for Media and Competence Research
Laura Overton, Managing Director, Towards Maturity
Deniz Saral, PhD, Department Chair of Business & Management Programs, Webster University
Rebecca Stromeyer, Founder and Managing Director, ICWE GmbH
Andras Szucs, Secretary General of the European Distance and e-Learning Network
David Worlock, Advisor and program co-chair at Co-chair, Outsell Executive Programs, Founder of EPS