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Friday, November 07, 2008

The priority of open education

ELIG sets learning priorities in Europe for 2009, a press release on the annual meeting of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), November 7, 2008.  (Thanks to Subbiah Arunachalam.)  Excerpt:

...Michael King, Vice President of Global Education Industry for IBM...observed: “Open platform education is the engine of innovation in the 21st century – especially since, between 2010 and 2020, the USA, Europe, Japan, China and India are predicted to face a shortfall of some 32m well-educated, technically specialised professionals. Consequently, education should enable open access for all; encourage open data and business processes; promote open communities of learning and open technologies to deliver the learning.” ...