Workshop Leaders

• Richard Straub, European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), France
• Elmar Husmann, European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), Germany
• Matty Smith, European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), UK

Content

The European digital education market is still in the early stages of development. Emerging Internet service platforms (such as social networks or workplace-embedded cloud services), content distribution models, devices (such as the iPad) and the significantly higher bandwidths of new mobile (4G) and fixed line (Gigabit) networks offer a radically changed environment for digitizing education.

The workshop comprises three interactive panels:

1) Improving European Framework Conditions for Digital Education

• a legal framework for digital education content and media (including open and propietary schemes)
• a regulatory framework for the preservation of quality, for accreditation and learner-centric competence management accross European digital learning providers
• fostering European research and innovation in the context of Digital Education

2) Digital Literacy and Skills

• the fostering on digital skills among European citizens
• the support of European new skills for new job initiatives
• improving inclusion and access, e.g. for Europeans with disabilities

3) Policy Meets the Digital Education Market

• exploring new forms of public-private collaboration
• participating in regional programmes

Each panel will be composed of practitioners and policy experts. All topics will be discussed in close interaction with the workshop audience.

The ELIG Public Policy Group (PPG) is an active influence group at European policy level. Members of the PPG will take part in the panels and consolidate the debate into a policy paper to be submitted to the European Commission.

Direct support of the workshop by the European Commission is under discussion.

Target Audience

The workshop is targeted at educational and learning professionals interested in the impact of European policy on the digital education market. It targets senior executives, business development and strategy managers as well as governmental relations experts - from the learning industry as well as from educational institutions.

Requirements

Typical participants should have an advanced level of experience of the digital education market. Specific experience of European public policy on digital education is not a prerequisite. However, policy professionals will equally benefit from the industry-oriented perspective of the workshop.

Outcomes

A deeper insight into issues embedded within the European Digital Education Agenda and how both institutions and learning industry representatives might more effectively communicate and shape that agenda.