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THE RISE OF VIRTUAL
                                                 “
                                                 Collaboration
                                                 is not defined
LEARNING                                         by the office
                                                 anymore. Ideas
                                                 and innovation
                                                 happen all
                                                 around us;
                                                 technology
                                                 is an enabler
                                                 and unifier,
                                                 and we need
                                                 new spaces of
                                                 operation.
                                                 Justin Bovington,
                                                 Rivers Run Red

                                                 ”

Jeremy Blain, Director, International Partners
Network, Cegos Group
CONTENTS



     OVERVIEW

1.   INTRODUCTION – VIRTUAL LEARNING TODAY

2.   ITS ORIGINS AND KEY BUSINESS DRIVERS

3.   IMPROVING THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

4.   THE AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES

•    4.1 E-Learning

•    4.2 Web Conferencing

•    4.3 Virtual Worlds

•    4.4 Serious Games

•    4.5 Internet TV

5.   VIRTUAL LEARNING – A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE

6.   WHAT MAKES A SUCCESSFUL VIRTUAL LEARNING

     EXPERIENCE?

7.   THE PERFECT VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND

     THE FUTURE




                                                    © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
OVERVIEW


This short white paper on virtual learning is part of series of white papers
Cegos is producing on some of the most exciting learning trends in L&D today
and follows a recent paper on ‘informal networks’. The paper will also link in to
a number of issues raised in the broader May 2010 white paper from Cegos
- ‘Exploring and Interpreting the Most Important Learning Trends across the
Globe’.

If you are interested in Learning Management Systems and the latest
technology systems to support virtual learning environments, this isn’t the
paper for you. This paper isn’t about the systems themselves, rather the virtual
learning applications that are being used, how and with what impact.

What this paper does is provide a broad snapshot of the corporate virtual
learning market today, its origins, the market drivers which are pushing it
forward, the different elements that make up virtual learning (some more
established than others), and most importantly, what organisations can do to
make sure they make full use of its potential.




                                                                                    © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
1.     INTRODUCTION – THE RISE IN VIRTUAL LEARNING


The last few years have seen virtual learning enjoy increased take-up
                                                                                       “
                                                                                       In the future, the
                                                                                       challenge for L&D
throughout organisations worldwide as a means of managing and training
talent more efficiently,                                                                professionals is to
                                                                                       harness this ability
In the US, for example, the use of virtual classroom tools increased from 45%
in 2008 to 59% in 2009 according to Bersin & Associates. Furthermore, a                for young people
June 2010 study conducted by the US-based Elearning! Media Group found
                                                                                       to combine using
that 64% of all corporate respondents have implemented virtual learning
within their organisations, and 18% more plan to add them. The same study              technology so readily,
reports virtual worlds for learning will grow 250% over the next year to 21% of
                                                                                       whilst developing
enterprises.
                                                                                       old fashioned skills
Virtual learning is on the rise elsewhere as well. The recent 2011 Training
                                                                                       like leadership and
Industry report by KeyNote, which surveyed the UK training market, pointed
to a number of training providers who provide virtual learning services (for           communication, and
example, Huthwaite Research Group has a virtual training campus). A
                                                                                       transfer this into the
September 2010 survey by industry training organisation, The Learning
Sanctuary, also found two thirds of those questioned saying that they would            corporate world.
rely on the virtual delivery of their training in the future. And in countries, such
as Korea, more and more virtual learning applications are being developed.

With a need to save costs and improve learning effectiveness, particularly
against the backdrop of the economic slowdown and slow return to growth,
                                                                                       ”
                                                                                       Martin Baker, Founder and
                                                                                       Managing Director of the Charity
as well as the benefits of bringing together people in geographically dispersed         Learning Consortium
places, L&D managers have been able to put forward a strong business case
for virtual learning. Yet, how much do we really know about virtual learning
today? What are the market forces which drive it? What forms is it taking?
And what makes the difference between success and failure?

We will take a look at all these areas, as we seek to explore the world of virtual
learning and how organisations can maximise its benefits. While referencing
some technology providers, it’s important to stress that this white paper is not
intended to provide an exhaustive list of key players, rather a snapshot of this
fast moving and rapidly expanding area of corporate virtual learning today.




                                                                                                      © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
2.    VIRTUAL LEARNING – ITS ORIGINS AND KEY BUSINESS

      DRIVERS


Today virtual learning is defined by cutting edge technologies from avatars
                                                                                   !   KEY
                                                                                       POINTS
                                                                                   The increased focus on
and virtual worlds through to serious gaming and Internet television (methods      Cost, ROI and Value,
which will be described later).                                                    aligned with the growth in
                                                                                   technologies and younger
It is about harnessing these powerful tools and technologies to create a virtual   generations entering the
learning environment where employees can access and enjoy the very latest          workforce, is leading to a
in learning techniques and methodologies from their desktop. It is much more       fundamental change in the
than a new delivery channel for learners but a highly potent learning technique    way we deliver training.
in its own right.
                                                                                   A diagnostics approach
In order to truly understand virtual learning, however, it’s important to          to individuals’ training
understand how virtual learning developed and what the key market drivers          requirements and a
are behind its increased take-up. As we will see, many of the precursors to        renewed focus on
corporate virtual learning today come from educational institutions.               measurement is also
                                                                                   coming to the fore.

2.1 Origins
Interestingly, the educational establishment have been arguably ahead of
corporations for a number of years in their embracing of virtual learning,
with virtual learning environments much more common in educational
environments before being incorporated into corporations – mainly through
Learning Management Systems (LMS).

For example, business schools, such as Insead, the Stockholm School of
Economics (SSE) and Duke Corporate Education in the United States, have
been experimenting with ‘Second Life’ for a number of years. In the UK, the
University of Durham recently launched a fire escape simulator, based on
the layout of the university campus and designed around a video game. The
initiative was part of a wider investigation into how game development tools
can be used to prototype virtual learning exercises.

And education is likely to lead the way over the next few years as
governments pour more resources into it. For example, the Chinese Ministry
of Education plans to reach 100 million more students through online learning
over the next 10 years. In South Korea, Megastudy.net, one of South Korea’s
largest online tutoring services, serves nearly 3 million students.

An example of the power of university-based research learning and knowledge
sharing can be found in GÉANT2 (see below).




GÉANT2 is the high-bandwidth, academic Internet serving Europe’s research
and education community. It connects over 30 million researchers in 34
European countries and covers a wealth of different applications.

It is intended to make cutting-edge research projects, such as the particle
accelerators at CERN, available to users everywhere. But there are many
other applications. For example, art students can access a library of ultra
high-resolution images of major artworks and study the artists’ techniques,
brushstroke by brushstroke; and music students can attend virtual master
classes, accompanying each other even when they are hundreds or thousands
of kilometers apart (Source: TellaSonera).                                                     © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
2.2 The Market Drivers

So what has spurred corporate L&D departments to embrace virtual learning
in the same way as educational institutions? There are a number of key
drivers, starting with economic ones.
                                                                                     !   KEY
                                                                                         POINTS
                                                                                     Economic Drivers,
The Economic Benefits. The economic slowdown and now slow return to                   Learning on Demand,
growth have shined the spotlight on the importance of maximising the value           More Effective
of training budgets. The result has been a move away from expensive and              Collaboration and
time consuming conference and ‘hotel’ based training and a move towards              Changing Workforce
bite-sized learning that can often be coordinated from the desktop and can           Demographics are proving
be integrated into employees’ day-to-day activities to ensure they remain            to be key drivers behind
productive.                                                                          virtual learning today.

Against this backdrop, virtual learning can have an enormous impact on
the bottom line through reduced costs from training away-days, greater
productivity among the workforce, and a leveraging of the technology across
organisations to foster more effective and collaborative means of working
together. In terms of both cost savings and value generated, the potential
business benefits of virtual learning can run into millions.

Learning On Demand. Virtual learning and its flexible access aligns itself
perfectly with the current workplace context where employees – particularly
from newer generations – are looking to learn ‘anytime, anywhere’. In this
sense, virtual learning is very much a product of its time.

More Effective & Efficient Collaborations. Virtual learning can also help
employers make their existing employees even more productive – particularly
important when organisations have been downsized. Recent research from
people assessment firm, Talent Q found that over 66% of organisations cited
developing high performing teams as their primary HR challenge over the
coming year. Virtual learning doesn’t just impact learning – it can influence
every facet of the business where collaboration is required, whether it be
internal management dynamics through to customer service and operations.

The Changing Context – Workforce Demographics. Finally, there is the
favorable context in which virtual learning is growing today. The changing
demographics of the workforce with younger generations entering it, more
attuned to the latest in technologies, is helping spur virtual learning on. In the
US, for example, “in just five years, potentially more than half of the workforce
will be composed of members of the Millennial/Gen Y generation (born
after 1981) who have grown up immersed in technology and social media”,
according to the ASTD 2010 State of the Industry Report.

And demand for virtual learning and the latest technologies are only likely to
grow when Generation Z (the ‘net generation’ born between the early 90s and
early 2000s) enters the workplace in the next few years.




                                                                                                © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
3.     IMPROVING THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE


However, probably the most important driver for virtual learning today is that it
really does improve the learning experience.

This is not to say that it is better than the classroom-based approach but
it brings with it a number of unique elements. If you have ever seen virtual
learning in practice – the use of avatars for example – it is stunningly life like
and highly impressive to observe with the body language providing incredible
details and people being shown to be actively learning. Against this backdrop,
it should be compulsory for all L&D and HR professionals to experience the
virtual learning environment. It is only then that they can make complete
decisions about their employees’ L&D needs.

Virtual learning can also improve communications skills between people and
encourage new behaviors. For example, those people, who are less assertive
in an office environment, might be prepared to be more assertive in the virtual
world.

Flexibility is also key to virtual learning today. Rather than receiving a learning
tool on a CD-Rom, the virtual learning environment can be customised for
evolving learner requirements

According to Steve Mahaley from Duke Corporate Education in North
Carolina, virtual learning “lets people explore and practice new behaviours
that will impact positively on the business.” Retention is also improved
because of the “experiential” nature of the learning.” (Financial Times, 15th
March 2010).

Albert Angehrn, The director of the Centre for Advanced Learning
Technologies at INSEAD Business School, also discussed the importance
of play in learning today: “Up to now, business simulations have
concentrated on numbers - the sort of things that appeal to accountants.
We are now seeing the emergence of simulations that concentrate on
characters who change their behaviour based on the learner’s decisions.
This reflects business practice more accurately than a purely numbers-
orientated simulation” (Training in Action, Innovate to Compete Conference,
2007).




                                                                                      © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
4.    THE AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES


So what are the technologies that have overseen the rise in virtual learning?
Probably the best starting point is e-learning.


4.1 E-Learning

E-learning remains the core technology behind virtual learning and a vital tool
for getting across basic learning principles.

Despite not living up to its initial hype when it came to the market in the early
2000’s, today e-learning is central to many organisation’s L&D practices.
Cegos Group’s May 2010 survey, for example, found that the adoption of
e-learning continues to increase with the UK and Spain leading the way in
Europe with 56% of Spanish employees and 53% of UK employees taking part
in e-learning training, against the European average of 35%.

While the first incarnation of e-learning tended to be positioned as a niche
learning delivery method, technical in application and most commonly used
for technical business areas, such as compliance training and production
orientation, today e-learning is used across the professional skills spectrum. At
Cegos, for example, our e-learning modules cover everything from purchasing
to management & leadership to marketing & innovation. See
www.elearning-cegos.com for further details.




4.2 Web-Conferencing/Webinars/Web Meetings

Another virtual learning technology that has been on the market for a number
of years and which is closely aligned to e-learning is that of web conferencing.
Standard packages include Cisco’s WebEx or Microsoft’s Live Meeting. While
web conferencing has typically been embraced in the past as a tool for online
meeting, it also has tremendous potential for L&D in creating virtual classrooms.

The last few years has seen a number of new applications such as a new
Adobe application for I-Phones which enables you to conduct webinars on your
mobile rather than via your PR. Other new developments include web sites,
such as www.livematrix.com, which list thousands of live online events every
day and which people can use to access HR and learning topics of interest.
If you find a subject of interest, for example, you can tag it, invite your friends
and even promote on your Twitter account. In this way, webinars are becoming
much more than a narrow business-focused activity but one which enters the           © Cegos Group, 2011/2012

social space and enables individuals to design their own training requirements.
One potential obstacle to web conferencing being incorporated as a virtual
learning tool, however, is that it remains too much a one-way medium where
a person is making a presentation, for example. Participants need to have the
courage to interrupt and the facilitator needs to make more interventions to
ensure that this it is a truly interactive environment where people are engaged.
How many times have you been checking your emails, while on a web
conference call, for example?!


4.3 Virtual Worlds

Probably the element which draws most attention towards virtual learning
today, however, is virtual worlds – an area which has developed dramatically
over the last few years.

Perhaps the most well-known virtual environment is Second Life (www.
secondlife.com), a web-based virtual world which enables users to interact via
avatars in a rich and immersive 3D and training environment. Participants can
explore, meet each other and participate in individual and group activities.

Since Second Life was launched in 2003, a number of other virtual
environments have come to the fore, one such example being Reaction Grid
(www.reactiongrid.com), where participants create an avatar and learn to walk
and interact with virtual objects and other avatars.

Then, there is VenueGen (www.venuegen.com), which focus more on ad
hoc events. VenueGen is cheap, easy to do and, most importantly, works.
It is a browser-based web conferencing service where its 3D virtual meeting
software enables users to interact with each other through avatars (which can
be developed to look like specific individuals).




Healthcare providers can have medical education training through Second Life.




                                                                                   © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
Through VenueGen, users can host and attend meetings, conferences, and
trainings with other colleagues and upload rich media into virtual meeting
rooms for real-time collaboration. It sees the integration of web conferencing
and audio conferencing within a virtual environment.

So how are these virtual worlds being applied in practice?

There are numerous potential applications, not just as an internal L&D tool but
across the entire business spectrum. For example, the virtual space can be
used as a means to interact with customers. A supplier, for example, can use
the space to invite customers and prospects to experience new products of
even new additions to the team.

Virtual worlds can also facilitate collaboration across borders and customers
helping to solve problems, for example, by tapping into expert avatars from
remote locations.

Virtual worlds can even support some of the agile business models developing
in the past, such as the lean manufacturing model, developed by Toyota, or
the Six Sigma management strategy developed by Motorola. With Six Sigma’s
goal being to improved the quality of outputs by minimising the variability in
business processes, normally across many regions and a number of mixed
supplier teams, there’s no reason why virtual worlds can’t be an a highly
effective enabler.

In short, virtual worlds have enormous potential to reshape the way we as
individuals don’t just access our learning but also how we access knowledge
and further develop our business skills.


The Virtual world




                                                                                  © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
4.4 SERIOUS GAMING

Another important development in virtual learning today is serious gaming.

While games-based learning has been in existence for 200 hundred years
(games were used for military training in the Prussian Army), it’s only since the
technology has caught up with the vision that it has really taken off.

Forrester Research expects serious games to take off in the next five years
due to ‘technology populism’ and the Generation Y effect. The May 2010
Cegos Group survey also found that 15% of European employees had used
serious gaming as part of their learning activities.

To this end, there are a plethora of serious gaming vendors in the marketplace
today. Ones worth noting include PIXIELearning (www.pixelearning.com) and
Soshi Games (www.soshigames.com/).

Take PIXIELearning and some of the serious games it offers. For example,
Call Centre Coach is a game where the call centre agent is challenged with
constantly keeping customer service levels high. Immersed in a role play
scenario, the agents navigates through the call, ensuring high customer
satisfaction levels as well as maximising call impact, whether it be through
follow-up sales, for example.

Another example, is the Finance Game, an online web based serious game,
immersive learning simulation, designed primarily to familiarise non-financial
people to key financial terms, metrics and concepts.

Here’s how it works. Learners are placed in a fictitious scenario involving a
medium-sized, underperforming mountain bike manufacturing company, in
desperate need of help. The learners can see the previous two years historical
trading figures (sales figures, profit & loss, cash flow and balance sheet). They
are also then given performance targets to achieve over the next three years.

Presented with challenges and a range of decisions to make, users need
to discover the strategy in order to achieve their targets. The learner’s
performance is tracked and compared to the predicted performance allowing
users to see where improvements and adjustments need to be made.

This serious game features a very detailed profit and loss, cashflow and
balance sheet model. Management accounts are generated each month and
then annual accounts are ‘filed’ at the end of each completed year.

All decisions cause realistic, logical business outcomes. For examples,
falls in market share when prices are increased sharply allowing learners to
understand the interdependencies of various business concepts.

As they practice and strive to achieve the in-game targets that they have
been set, they will quickly begin to grasp the sensitivities of each factor
(e.g. the importance of working capital) and be able to understand the
interdependence of the different aspects of the business from a financial
standpoint.

So why is serious gaming proving to be so effective today?

The improved quality of serious gaming, rapid simulation and content-rich
platforms has significant potential for L&D.




                                                                                    © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
The games are made to provide an engaging, self-reinforcing context in which


                                                                                    !
to motivate, educate and train players and the fact that they are often based
on one singe objective, can help focus the learner’s mind. In addition to this,
the advances in video and computer game development can result in a highly
sophisticated activity customised to your organisations’ needs.
                                                                                    THE KEY
Serious gaming is also perfectly targeted at the Generations Y and Z entering
the workplace and has the ability to engage these people early on. The              TECHNOLOGIES
sophistication of games today can also make participants understand the true
consequence of their actions with a real focus on outcomes.                         E-Learning

                                                                                    Web Conferences
4.5 Internet TV
                                                                                    Virtual Learning
The last few years have also seen the growth of Internet Television which is        Environments
close to delivering full screen streaming video to computers and set top boxes
over broadband at the same quality as satellite TV.                                 Serious Gaming

ABI Research, for example, predicts that revenue from global pay Internet TV        Internet TV
services will be $40 billion by the end of 2015 and Sony estimates that 90% of
all televisions sold in 2012 will be able to connect to the Internet.

Internet TV essentially allows you to broadcast live or record items as if you
had your own television channel. This can means that video casts, online
lectures, live press releases etc can be instantly accessible on your customer
and employee desktops.

And the beauty of Internet TV is that you don’t need a studio. All you require
is a room, a decent digital video camera, a green screen (blank wall with a
green cloth to be crude!) and one of the new generation “studio-in a-a-box”
concepts that allow you to record in a rich 3D environment, broadcast live,
and maintain programming for ongoing access.

We believe that Internet TV has enormous potential for L&D and businesses in
the future.
Benefits include its low entry and distribution costs (a suitcase, a camera and
some editing software), the fact that it is on demand, and its ability to reach
specific and global markets with precision. It also allows L&D departments to
take content and present it in a fully interactive and rich, 3D environment.

It is against this backdrop and due to our belief in Internet TV, that we at
Cegos are pioneering the concept of Internet TV-based learning through a
partnership with leading Internet TV specialists, Vision IP TV (www.visionip.tv).
Watch this space!




                                                                                                  © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
5.     VIRTUAL LEARNING – A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE


So is virtual learning growing at a consistent rate worldwide? While this white
paper won’t go into detail on virtual learning environments throughout the
world, a number of observations can be made.

•      Countries, such as the US, the UK and across Europe are continuing
       to take up virtual learning. A recent survey from Cegos in May 2010,
       however, found Spain and the UK to be ahead of France and Germany
       in regard to the embracing of online learning.
•      Asian countries, such as Korea, are setting the standard in designing
       learning environments. At present, the only thing holding them
       back is that many of the deliverables are just in Korean. In terms of
       technologies, however, they remain world leaders.
•      Clearly a technology gap remains where in countries (such as in Africa),
       there is limited bandwidth and access to the Internet, and users can’t
       enjoy some of the latest virtual learning environments. See world
       internet penetration rates as of June 30th 2010.

           North America                                                                    77.4%


      Oceania / Australia                                                    61.3%


                  Europe                                                    58.4%


Latin America / Caribbean                                    34.5%


             Middle East                               29.8%


                    Asia                       21.5%


                   Africa            10.9%


             World, Avg.                               28.7%


                            0%     10%       20%       30%      40%   50%   60%      70%º     80%

                            Penetration Rate

World Internet Penetration Rates by Geographic Regions – 2010




                                                                                                    © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
6.     WHAT MAKES A SUCCESSFUL VIRTUAL LEARNING

       EXPERIENCE


In this white paper, we have looked at some of the key elements of virtual
learning, its benefits, how it differs from region to region, and the key market
drivers behind it. Yet probably the most fundamental question is how it can be
successfully implemented within organisations? Here are a few suggestions
below:


6.1 Don’t Forget That the Learning Premise Remains the Same

Successful learning requires an environment where employees are exposed
to new information, can express ideas, practice new skills and interact
with colleagues. Most importantly the learning needs to be relevant to the
employee needs and delivered in a way that helps them not just retain it, but
apply it in the workplace. Just because it is a different medium, it’s important
to stick to these core principles. One potential means of ensuring that the
learning principle remains at the forefront is to involve learners in the project
team at the design phase.


6.2 The Importance of Integrating Different Learning Techniques

       and Collaborative Social Media Techniques and Technologies

One of the biggest dangers to the progression of virtual learning today is
chasing after each new fad at the expense of technologies that have stood
the test of time. That’s why at Cegos we have focused on utilising new
technologies but also integrating them into existing solutions. Don’t dismiss
traditional e-learning modules as ‘old hat’, for example, just because serious
gaming comes along.

An incremental approach normally pays dividends (even Skype in its simplest
format has important implications for virtual learning). Otherwise, you can
simply be overwhelmed by the plethora of technologies available (see
illustration below).




Which technologies should I opt for?


                                                                                    © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
6.3 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING LEARNER-DRIVEN,

       OBJECTIVES & MEASUREMENT
                                                                                      !
As in any form of learning intervention, it’s important that the learning
experience is driven by the learner. The virtual environment also has to have
                                                                                      A
valid learning objectives. Instructional design must blend seamlessly with            SUCCESSFUL
game design, for example, and must include mechanisms to track, assess
and validate progress. The ability to judge a participant’s involvement in a
                                                                                      VIRTUAL
virtual session, for example, is crucial – otherwise, it will be difficult to assess   LEARNING
the benefits of virtual training. Possible components could include quizzes or
specific game objectives to complete.
                                                                                      ENVIRONMENT
                                                                                      – A CHECK LIST
6.4 It’s All About the Content                                                        Am I getting carried away
                                                                                      with new technologies
The commitment to good information, targeted at the employee and                      at the expense of older
presented in an engaging way, is essential for success in the virtual                 proven ones?
environment. There must always be a focus on good content.
                                                                                      Does the learner remain in
                                                                                      control?
6.5 Creating the Right Culture
                                                                                      How can I involve the
For virtual working to be effective, it’s about more than just having the right       learner more at the design
technology and processes in place, it’s about developing an organisational            phase?
culture that supports and trusts employees to work remotely. Employers
need to focus less on where their employees work and more on their delivery           What about measurement
and impact. It’s also about taking a more open and creative approach and              and objectives?
communicating constantly.
                                                                                      Am I still relying on quality
The goal here is to make the whole virtual learning culture viral so that it          information?
starts to run itself and create its own ongoing collaborations and application
of the learning.                                                                      Is there internal buy in and
                                                                                      a political will for virtual
                                                                                      learning to succeed?

                                                                                      How can I take virtual
                                                                                      learning viral?!




                                                                                                    © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
7.    THE PERFECT VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND

      THE FUTURE

The bottom line here is making sure that all the unique attributes of virtual
learning are prevalent to create the right learning environment for your
employees.

What are these attributes?

These include (among many others) the realistic nature of the learning
interaction – the avatars, for example; the interactivity and high quality content
of Internet TV, for example; the huge variety of choice from online webinars;
the very unique attributes of the learning experience from the ease of access
to the focus on specific objectives; and the closely alignment of the medium
with the interests of the next generation entering the workforce.

Virtual learning and the variety of different components under the virtual
learning umbrella have enormous potential for the future application of L&D
and business. What is clear is that we are just at the beginning of what could
be a long and potentially transformational journey.




                                                                                     © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
REFERENCES


Cegos Survey, May 2010.
Cegos White Paper - ‘Exploring & Interpreting the Most Important Learning
Trends Across the Globe’, May 2010.
Corporate Learning Factbook 2010, Bersin & Associates.
Elearning! Media Group Survey, June 2010.
2010 State of the Industry Report, ASTD.
2011 Training Industry Report, Keynote.
The Learning Sanctuary Survey, September 2010.


Useful Web Sites

www.abiresearch.com
www.bersin.com
www.calt.insead.edu
www.cipd.co.uk
www.elearning-cegos.com
www.forrester.com
www.geant2.net
www.keynote.co.uk
www.thelearningsanctuary.co.uk
www.livematrix.com
www.pixelearning.com
www.reactiongrid.com
www.secondlife.com
www.soshigames.com/
www.venuegen.com
www.visionip.tv
www.webex.co.uk




ABOUT CEGOS GROUP


Cegos Group, established in 1926 is today the European leader in
professional education and one of the major global players. Its consultants
have expertise across all subject areas in management and developing
competencies: human resources, management and leadership, performance
and organizational skills, individual and team performance, marketing and
commercial, project management, deployment of large training systems
internationally.

In 2008, the Cegos Group achieved sales of 195.5 M€ and trained more than
200,000 staff in Europe and internationally. Cegos employs 1,200 consultants
and works in 30 countries across the globe.

www.cegos.com
www.elearning-cegos.com
www.global-learning-cegos.com

For more details, debate or discussion, please contact:
jeremy.blain@cegos.co.uk or + 44 (0)7714 521045

                                                                               © Cegos Group, 2011/2012

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  • 1. THE RISE OF VIRTUAL “ Collaboration is not defined LEARNING by the office anymore. Ideas and innovation happen all around us; technology is an enabler and unifier, and we need new spaces of operation. Justin Bovington, Rivers Run Red ” Jeremy Blain, Director, International Partners Network, Cegos Group
  • 2. CONTENTS OVERVIEW 1. INTRODUCTION – VIRTUAL LEARNING TODAY 2. ITS ORIGINS AND KEY BUSINESS DRIVERS 3. IMPROVING THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE 4. THE AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES • 4.1 E-Learning • 4.2 Web Conferencing • 4.3 Virtual Worlds • 4.4 Serious Games • 4.5 Internet TV 5. VIRTUAL LEARNING – A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE 6. WHAT MAKES A SUCCESSFUL VIRTUAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE? 7. THE PERFECT VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND THE FUTURE © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 3. OVERVIEW This short white paper on virtual learning is part of series of white papers Cegos is producing on some of the most exciting learning trends in L&D today and follows a recent paper on ‘informal networks’. The paper will also link in to a number of issues raised in the broader May 2010 white paper from Cegos - ‘Exploring and Interpreting the Most Important Learning Trends across the Globe’. If you are interested in Learning Management Systems and the latest technology systems to support virtual learning environments, this isn’t the paper for you. This paper isn’t about the systems themselves, rather the virtual learning applications that are being used, how and with what impact. What this paper does is provide a broad snapshot of the corporate virtual learning market today, its origins, the market drivers which are pushing it forward, the different elements that make up virtual learning (some more established than others), and most importantly, what organisations can do to make sure they make full use of its potential. © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 4. 1. INTRODUCTION – THE RISE IN VIRTUAL LEARNING The last few years have seen virtual learning enjoy increased take-up “ In the future, the challenge for L&D throughout organisations worldwide as a means of managing and training talent more efficiently, professionals is to harness this ability In the US, for example, the use of virtual classroom tools increased from 45% in 2008 to 59% in 2009 according to Bersin & Associates. Furthermore, a for young people June 2010 study conducted by the US-based Elearning! Media Group found to combine using that 64% of all corporate respondents have implemented virtual learning within their organisations, and 18% more plan to add them. The same study technology so readily, reports virtual worlds for learning will grow 250% over the next year to 21% of whilst developing enterprises. old fashioned skills Virtual learning is on the rise elsewhere as well. The recent 2011 Training like leadership and Industry report by KeyNote, which surveyed the UK training market, pointed to a number of training providers who provide virtual learning services (for communication, and example, Huthwaite Research Group has a virtual training campus). A transfer this into the September 2010 survey by industry training organisation, The Learning Sanctuary, also found two thirds of those questioned saying that they would corporate world. rely on the virtual delivery of their training in the future. And in countries, such as Korea, more and more virtual learning applications are being developed. With a need to save costs and improve learning effectiveness, particularly against the backdrop of the economic slowdown and slow return to growth, ” Martin Baker, Founder and Managing Director of the Charity as well as the benefits of bringing together people in geographically dispersed Learning Consortium places, L&D managers have been able to put forward a strong business case for virtual learning. Yet, how much do we really know about virtual learning today? What are the market forces which drive it? What forms is it taking? And what makes the difference between success and failure? We will take a look at all these areas, as we seek to explore the world of virtual learning and how organisations can maximise its benefits. While referencing some technology providers, it’s important to stress that this white paper is not intended to provide an exhaustive list of key players, rather a snapshot of this fast moving and rapidly expanding area of corporate virtual learning today. © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 5. 2. VIRTUAL LEARNING – ITS ORIGINS AND KEY BUSINESS DRIVERS Today virtual learning is defined by cutting edge technologies from avatars ! KEY POINTS The increased focus on and virtual worlds through to serious gaming and Internet television (methods Cost, ROI and Value, which will be described later). aligned with the growth in technologies and younger It is about harnessing these powerful tools and technologies to create a virtual generations entering the learning environment where employees can access and enjoy the very latest workforce, is leading to a in learning techniques and methodologies from their desktop. It is much more fundamental change in the than a new delivery channel for learners but a highly potent learning technique way we deliver training. in its own right. A diagnostics approach In order to truly understand virtual learning, however, it’s important to to individuals’ training understand how virtual learning developed and what the key market drivers requirements and a are behind its increased take-up. As we will see, many of the precursors to renewed focus on corporate virtual learning today come from educational institutions. measurement is also coming to the fore. 2.1 Origins Interestingly, the educational establishment have been arguably ahead of corporations for a number of years in their embracing of virtual learning, with virtual learning environments much more common in educational environments before being incorporated into corporations – mainly through Learning Management Systems (LMS). For example, business schools, such as Insead, the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and Duke Corporate Education in the United States, have been experimenting with ‘Second Life’ for a number of years. In the UK, the University of Durham recently launched a fire escape simulator, based on the layout of the university campus and designed around a video game. The initiative was part of a wider investigation into how game development tools can be used to prototype virtual learning exercises. And education is likely to lead the way over the next few years as governments pour more resources into it. For example, the Chinese Ministry of Education plans to reach 100 million more students through online learning over the next 10 years. In South Korea, Megastudy.net, one of South Korea’s largest online tutoring services, serves nearly 3 million students. An example of the power of university-based research learning and knowledge sharing can be found in GÉANT2 (see below). GÉANT2 is the high-bandwidth, academic Internet serving Europe’s research and education community. It connects over 30 million researchers in 34 European countries and covers a wealth of different applications. It is intended to make cutting-edge research projects, such as the particle accelerators at CERN, available to users everywhere. But there are many other applications. For example, art students can access a library of ultra high-resolution images of major artworks and study the artists’ techniques, brushstroke by brushstroke; and music students can attend virtual master classes, accompanying each other even when they are hundreds or thousands of kilometers apart (Source: TellaSonera). © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 6. 2.2 The Market Drivers So what has spurred corporate L&D departments to embrace virtual learning in the same way as educational institutions? There are a number of key drivers, starting with economic ones. ! KEY POINTS Economic Drivers, The Economic Benefits. The economic slowdown and now slow return to Learning on Demand, growth have shined the spotlight on the importance of maximising the value More Effective of training budgets. The result has been a move away from expensive and Collaboration and time consuming conference and ‘hotel’ based training and a move towards Changing Workforce bite-sized learning that can often be coordinated from the desktop and can Demographics are proving be integrated into employees’ day-to-day activities to ensure they remain to be key drivers behind productive. virtual learning today. Against this backdrop, virtual learning can have an enormous impact on the bottom line through reduced costs from training away-days, greater productivity among the workforce, and a leveraging of the technology across organisations to foster more effective and collaborative means of working together. In terms of both cost savings and value generated, the potential business benefits of virtual learning can run into millions. Learning On Demand. Virtual learning and its flexible access aligns itself perfectly with the current workplace context where employees – particularly from newer generations – are looking to learn ‘anytime, anywhere’. In this sense, virtual learning is very much a product of its time. More Effective & Efficient Collaborations. Virtual learning can also help employers make their existing employees even more productive – particularly important when organisations have been downsized. Recent research from people assessment firm, Talent Q found that over 66% of organisations cited developing high performing teams as their primary HR challenge over the coming year. Virtual learning doesn’t just impact learning – it can influence every facet of the business where collaboration is required, whether it be internal management dynamics through to customer service and operations. The Changing Context – Workforce Demographics. Finally, there is the favorable context in which virtual learning is growing today. The changing demographics of the workforce with younger generations entering it, more attuned to the latest in technologies, is helping spur virtual learning on. In the US, for example, “in just five years, potentially more than half of the workforce will be composed of members of the Millennial/Gen Y generation (born after 1981) who have grown up immersed in technology and social media”, according to the ASTD 2010 State of the Industry Report. And demand for virtual learning and the latest technologies are only likely to grow when Generation Z (the ‘net generation’ born between the early 90s and early 2000s) enters the workplace in the next few years. © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 7. 3. IMPROVING THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE However, probably the most important driver for virtual learning today is that it really does improve the learning experience. This is not to say that it is better than the classroom-based approach but it brings with it a number of unique elements. If you have ever seen virtual learning in practice – the use of avatars for example – it is stunningly life like and highly impressive to observe with the body language providing incredible details and people being shown to be actively learning. Against this backdrop, it should be compulsory for all L&D and HR professionals to experience the virtual learning environment. It is only then that they can make complete decisions about their employees’ L&D needs. Virtual learning can also improve communications skills between people and encourage new behaviors. For example, those people, who are less assertive in an office environment, might be prepared to be more assertive in the virtual world. Flexibility is also key to virtual learning today. Rather than receiving a learning tool on a CD-Rom, the virtual learning environment can be customised for evolving learner requirements According to Steve Mahaley from Duke Corporate Education in North Carolina, virtual learning “lets people explore and practice new behaviours that will impact positively on the business.” Retention is also improved because of the “experiential” nature of the learning.” (Financial Times, 15th March 2010). Albert Angehrn, The director of the Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies at INSEAD Business School, also discussed the importance of play in learning today: “Up to now, business simulations have concentrated on numbers - the sort of things that appeal to accountants. We are now seeing the emergence of simulations that concentrate on characters who change their behaviour based on the learner’s decisions. This reflects business practice more accurately than a purely numbers- orientated simulation” (Training in Action, Innovate to Compete Conference, 2007). © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 8. 4. THE AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES So what are the technologies that have overseen the rise in virtual learning? Probably the best starting point is e-learning. 4.1 E-Learning E-learning remains the core technology behind virtual learning and a vital tool for getting across basic learning principles. Despite not living up to its initial hype when it came to the market in the early 2000’s, today e-learning is central to many organisation’s L&D practices. Cegos Group’s May 2010 survey, for example, found that the adoption of e-learning continues to increase with the UK and Spain leading the way in Europe with 56% of Spanish employees and 53% of UK employees taking part in e-learning training, against the European average of 35%. While the first incarnation of e-learning tended to be positioned as a niche learning delivery method, technical in application and most commonly used for technical business areas, such as compliance training and production orientation, today e-learning is used across the professional skills spectrum. At Cegos, for example, our e-learning modules cover everything from purchasing to management & leadership to marketing & innovation. See www.elearning-cegos.com for further details. 4.2 Web-Conferencing/Webinars/Web Meetings Another virtual learning technology that has been on the market for a number of years and which is closely aligned to e-learning is that of web conferencing. Standard packages include Cisco’s WebEx or Microsoft’s Live Meeting. While web conferencing has typically been embraced in the past as a tool for online meeting, it also has tremendous potential for L&D in creating virtual classrooms. The last few years has seen a number of new applications such as a new Adobe application for I-Phones which enables you to conduct webinars on your mobile rather than via your PR. Other new developments include web sites, such as www.livematrix.com, which list thousands of live online events every day and which people can use to access HR and learning topics of interest. If you find a subject of interest, for example, you can tag it, invite your friends and even promote on your Twitter account. In this way, webinars are becoming much more than a narrow business-focused activity but one which enters the © Cegos Group, 2011/2012 social space and enables individuals to design their own training requirements.
  • 9. One potential obstacle to web conferencing being incorporated as a virtual learning tool, however, is that it remains too much a one-way medium where a person is making a presentation, for example. Participants need to have the courage to interrupt and the facilitator needs to make more interventions to ensure that this it is a truly interactive environment where people are engaged. How many times have you been checking your emails, while on a web conference call, for example?! 4.3 Virtual Worlds Probably the element which draws most attention towards virtual learning today, however, is virtual worlds – an area which has developed dramatically over the last few years. Perhaps the most well-known virtual environment is Second Life (www. secondlife.com), a web-based virtual world which enables users to interact via avatars in a rich and immersive 3D and training environment. Participants can explore, meet each other and participate in individual and group activities. Since Second Life was launched in 2003, a number of other virtual environments have come to the fore, one such example being Reaction Grid (www.reactiongrid.com), where participants create an avatar and learn to walk and interact with virtual objects and other avatars. Then, there is VenueGen (www.venuegen.com), which focus more on ad hoc events. VenueGen is cheap, easy to do and, most importantly, works. It is a browser-based web conferencing service where its 3D virtual meeting software enables users to interact with each other through avatars (which can be developed to look like specific individuals). Healthcare providers can have medical education training through Second Life. © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 10. Through VenueGen, users can host and attend meetings, conferences, and trainings with other colleagues and upload rich media into virtual meeting rooms for real-time collaboration. It sees the integration of web conferencing and audio conferencing within a virtual environment. So how are these virtual worlds being applied in practice? There are numerous potential applications, not just as an internal L&D tool but across the entire business spectrum. For example, the virtual space can be used as a means to interact with customers. A supplier, for example, can use the space to invite customers and prospects to experience new products of even new additions to the team. Virtual worlds can also facilitate collaboration across borders and customers helping to solve problems, for example, by tapping into expert avatars from remote locations. Virtual worlds can even support some of the agile business models developing in the past, such as the lean manufacturing model, developed by Toyota, or the Six Sigma management strategy developed by Motorola. With Six Sigma’s goal being to improved the quality of outputs by minimising the variability in business processes, normally across many regions and a number of mixed supplier teams, there’s no reason why virtual worlds can’t be an a highly effective enabler. In short, virtual worlds have enormous potential to reshape the way we as individuals don’t just access our learning but also how we access knowledge and further develop our business skills. The Virtual world © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 11. 4.4 SERIOUS GAMING Another important development in virtual learning today is serious gaming. While games-based learning has been in existence for 200 hundred years (games were used for military training in the Prussian Army), it’s only since the technology has caught up with the vision that it has really taken off. Forrester Research expects serious games to take off in the next five years due to ‘technology populism’ and the Generation Y effect. The May 2010 Cegos Group survey also found that 15% of European employees had used serious gaming as part of their learning activities. To this end, there are a plethora of serious gaming vendors in the marketplace today. Ones worth noting include PIXIELearning (www.pixelearning.com) and Soshi Games (www.soshigames.com/). Take PIXIELearning and some of the serious games it offers. For example, Call Centre Coach is a game where the call centre agent is challenged with constantly keeping customer service levels high. Immersed in a role play scenario, the agents navigates through the call, ensuring high customer satisfaction levels as well as maximising call impact, whether it be through follow-up sales, for example. Another example, is the Finance Game, an online web based serious game, immersive learning simulation, designed primarily to familiarise non-financial people to key financial terms, metrics and concepts. Here’s how it works. Learners are placed in a fictitious scenario involving a medium-sized, underperforming mountain bike manufacturing company, in desperate need of help. The learners can see the previous two years historical trading figures (sales figures, profit & loss, cash flow and balance sheet). They are also then given performance targets to achieve over the next three years. Presented with challenges and a range of decisions to make, users need to discover the strategy in order to achieve their targets. The learner’s performance is tracked and compared to the predicted performance allowing users to see where improvements and adjustments need to be made. This serious game features a very detailed profit and loss, cashflow and balance sheet model. Management accounts are generated each month and then annual accounts are ‘filed’ at the end of each completed year. All decisions cause realistic, logical business outcomes. For examples, falls in market share when prices are increased sharply allowing learners to understand the interdependencies of various business concepts. As they practice and strive to achieve the in-game targets that they have been set, they will quickly begin to grasp the sensitivities of each factor (e.g. the importance of working capital) and be able to understand the interdependence of the different aspects of the business from a financial standpoint. So why is serious gaming proving to be so effective today? The improved quality of serious gaming, rapid simulation and content-rich platforms has significant potential for L&D. © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 12. The games are made to provide an engaging, self-reinforcing context in which ! to motivate, educate and train players and the fact that they are often based on one singe objective, can help focus the learner’s mind. In addition to this, the advances in video and computer game development can result in a highly sophisticated activity customised to your organisations’ needs. THE KEY Serious gaming is also perfectly targeted at the Generations Y and Z entering the workplace and has the ability to engage these people early on. The TECHNOLOGIES sophistication of games today can also make participants understand the true consequence of their actions with a real focus on outcomes. E-Learning Web Conferences 4.5 Internet TV Virtual Learning The last few years have also seen the growth of Internet Television which is Environments close to delivering full screen streaming video to computers and set top boxes over broadband at the same quality as satellite TV. Serious Gaming ABI Research, for example, predicts that revenue from global pay Internet TV Internet TV services will be $40 billion by the end of 2015 and Sony estimates that 90% of all televisions sold in 2012 will be able to connect to the Internet. Internet TV essentially allows you to broadcast live or record items as if you had your own television channel. This can means that video casts, online lectures, live press releases etc can be instantly accessible on your customer and employee desktops. And the beauty of Internet TV is that you don’t need a studio. All you require is a room, a decent digital video camera, a green screen (blank wall with a green cloth to be crude!) and one of the new generation “studio-in a-a-box” concepts that allow you to record in a rich 3D environment, broadcast live, and maintain programming for ongoing access. We believe that Internet TV has enormous potential for L&D and businesses in the future. Benefits include its low entry and distribution costs (a suitcase, a camera and some editing software), the fact that it is on demand, and its ability to reach specific and global markets with precision. It also allows L&D departments to take content and present it in a fully interactive and rich, 3D environment. It is against this backdrop and due to our belief in Internet TV, that we at Cegos are pioneering the concept of Internet TV-based learning through a partnership with leading Internet TV specialists, Vision IP TV (www.visionip.tv). Watch this space! © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 13. 5. VIRTUAL LEARNING – A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE So is virtual learning growing at a consistent rate worldwide? While this white paper won’t go into detail on virtual learning environments throughout the world, a number of observations can be made. • Countries, such as the US, the UK and across Europe are continuing to take up virtual learning. A recent survey from Cegos in May 2010, however, found Spain and the UK to be ahead of France and Germany in regard to the embracing of online learning. • Asian countries, such as Korea, are setting the standard in designing learning environments. At present, the only thing holding them back is that many of the deliverables are just in Korean. In terms of technologies, however, they remain world leaders. • Clearly a technology gap remains where in countries (such as in Africa), there is limited bandwidth and access to the Internet, and users can’t enjoy some of the latest virtual learning environments. See world internet penetration rates as of June 30th 2010. North America 77.4% Oceania / Australia 61.3% Europe 58.4% Latin America / Caribbean 34.5% Middle East 29.8% Asia 21.5% Africa 10.9% World, Avg. 28.7% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%º 80% Penetration Rate World Internet Penetration Rates by Geographic Regions – 2010 © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 14. 6. WHAT MAKES A SUCCESSFUL VIRTUAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE In this white paper, we have looked at some of the key elements of virtual learning, its benefits, how it differs from region to region, and the key market drivers behind it. Yet probably the most fundamental question is how it can be successfully implemented within organisations? Here are a few suggestions below: 6.1 Don’t Forget That the Learning Premise Remains the Same Successful learning requires an environment where employees are exposed to new information, can express ideas, practice new skills and interact with colleagues. Most importantly the learning needs to be relevant to the employee needs and delivered in a way that helps them not just retain it, but apply it in the workplace. Just because it is a different medium, it’s important to stick to these core principles. One potential means of ensuring that the learning principle remains at the forefront is to involve learners in the project team at the design phase. 6.2 The Importance of Integrating Different Learning Techniques and Collaborative Social Media Techniques and Technologies One of the biggest dangers to the progression of virtual learning today is chasing after each new fad at the expense of technologies that have stood the test of time. That’s why at Cegos we have focused on utilising new technologies but also integrating them into existing solutions. Don’t dismiss traditional e-learning modules as ‘old hat’, for example, just because serious gaming comes along. An incremental approach normally pays dividends (even Skype in its simplest format has important implications for virtual learning). Otherwise, you can simply be overwhelmed by the plethora of technologies available (see illustration below). Which technologies should I opt for? © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 15. 6.3 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING LEARNER-DRIVEN, OBJECTIVES & MEASUREMENT ! As in any form of learning intervention, it’s important that the learning experience is driven by the learner. The virtual environment also has to have A valid learning objectives. Instructional design must blend seamlessly with SUCCESSFUL game design, for example, and must include mechanisms to track, assess and validate progress. The ability to judge a participant’s involvement in a VIRTUAL virtual session, for example, is crucial – otherwise, it will be difficult to assess LEARNING the benefits of virtual training. Possible components could include quizzes or specific game objectives to complete. ENVIRONMENT – A CHECK LIST 6.4 It’s All About the Content Am I getting carried away with new technologies The commitment to good information, targeted at the employee and at the expense of older presented in an engaging way, is essential for success in the virtual proven ones? environment. There must always be a focus on good content. Does the learner remain in control? 6.5 Creating the Right Culture How can I involve the For virtual working to be effective, it’s about more than just having the right learner more at the design technology and processes in place, it’s about developing an organisational phase? culture that supports and trusts employees to work remotely. Employers need to focus less on where their employees work and more on their delivery What about measurement and impact. It’s also about taking a more open and creative approach and and objectives? communicating constantly. Am I still relying on quality The goal here is to make the whole virtual learning culture viral so that it information? starts to run itself and create its own ongoing collaborations and application of the learning. Is there internal buy in and a political will for virtual learning to succeed? How can I take virtual learning viral?! © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 16. 7. THE PERFECT VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND THE FUTURE The bottom line here is making sure that all the unique attributes of virtual learning are prevalent to create the right learning environment for your employees. What are these attributes? These include (among many others) the realistic nature of the learning interaction – the avatars, for example; the interactivity and high quality content of Internet TV, for example; the huge variety of choice from online webinars; the very unique attributes of the learning experience from the ease of access to the focus on specific objectives; and the closely alignment of the medium with the interests of the next generation entering the workforce. Virtual learning and the variety of different components under the virtual learning umbrella have enormous potential for the future application of L&D and business. What is clear is that we are just at the beginning of what could be a long and potentially transformational journey. © Cegos Group, 2011/2012
  • 17. REFERENCES Cegos Survey, May 2010. Cegos White Paper - ‘Exploring & Interpreting the Most Important Learning Trends Across the Globe’, May 2010. Corporate Learning Factbook 2010, Bersin & Associates. Elearning! Media Group Survey, June 2010. 2010 State of the Industry Report, ASTD. 2011 Training Industry Report, Keynote. The Learning Sanctuary Survey, September 2010. Useful Web Sites www.abiresearch.com www.bersin.com www.calt.insead.edu www.cipd.co.uk www.elearning-cegos.com www.forrester.com www.geant2.net www.keynote.co.uk www.thelearningsanctuary.co.uk www.livematrix.com www.pixelearning.com www.reactiongrid.com www.secondlife.com www.soshigames.com/ www.venuegen.com www.visionip.tv www.webex.co.uk ABOUT CEGOS GROUP Cegos Group, established in 1926 is today the European leader in professional education and one of the major global players. Its consultants have expertise across all subject areas in management and developing competencies: human resources, management and leadership, performance and organizational skills, individual and team performance, marketing and commercial, project management, deployment of large training systems internationally. In 2008, the Cegos Group achieved sales of 195.5 M€ and trained more than 200,000 staff in Europe and internationally. Cegos employs 1,200 consultants and works in 30 countries across the globe. www.cegos.com www.elearning-cegos.com www.global-learning-cegos.com For more details, debate or discussion, please contact: jeremy.blain@cegos.co.uk or + 44 (0)7714 521045 © Cegos Group, 2011/2012