"Mass collaboration encourages consumers, employees, suppliers, partners and competitors alike to share information and ideas, and marks a profound change in the way business is conducted" – Tapscott & Williams in 'Wikinomics'.

Business is increasingly keen to learn from education and vice-versa. For example, businesses adopt innovative learning methodologies and educationalists emulate corporate good practice in change management. Such changing mindsets have also stimulated the rapid evolution of new web technologies – popularly called Web 2.0 – although the implied step change is largely marketing hype for a fast-evolved web.

Moodle – an education-focused elearning system born out of Web 2.0 – offers businesses new ways to collaborate, learn and evolve. Like Wikipedia, Moodle is open-source, benefiting from the mass collaboration mindset of countless technology mavericks. In his presentation, Mark Tointon of Aardpess illustrates some advantages for businesses and explains how tools that they have developed for Moodle are encouraging corporate clients to adopt it.

To book one of the last few Showcase places, go to:
http://www.elearningnetwork.org/content/eln-members-showcase