The sixth, annual, top ten e-learning movers and shakers

ST ALBANS, U.K. - Jan. 2, 2015 - PRLog -- Now in its sixth year, the latest annual lists of the ‘Top Ten’ most influential people in the corporate e-learning sector - in the World, North America, Europe, the UK and Asia-Pacific - contain the names of 38 people.

These ‘movers and shakers’ lists are compiled from a corporate online learning perspective, on the basis of a person’s perceived current influence on the online learning industry – as a practitioner, commentator, facilitator and/or thought leader. In such a subjective area, opinions will always differ – and its guaranteed that the judges’ decisions will not meet with universal acclaim - but these lists represent the views of a number of key people about the personalities who lead the corporate online learning world. The 2015 lists are:

World List
1.     Craig Weiss - an e-learning analyst, expert, author, speaker and thought leader who is CEO of E-Learning 24/7. (Position last year: 2)
2.     Elliott Masie - head of The MASIE Center, a New York think-tank. (Position last year: 1)
3.     Christopher Pappas – CEO of the eLearning Industry's Network elearningindustry.com (Position last year: 8)
4.     Tom Kuhlmann - e-learning designer. (Position last year: 3)
5.     Laura Overton – a speaker and managing director of Towards Maturity, a not-for-profit company that provides research and online resources to help organisations deliver effective learning interventions at work.
6.     Harold Jarche - the Canada-based ‘thought catalyst’, writer and blogger. (Position last year: 5)
7.     Patti Shank - founder of Learning Peaks, and an internationally recognised expert. (Position last year: 6)
8.     Rebecca Stromeyer - owner of ICWE, which runs Online Educa as well as E-Learning Africa (Position last year: 7)
9.     Sahan Chattopadhyay - enterprise community manager at Thoughtworks and writer of the ID and Other Reflections blog.
10.  Sunder Ramachandran – blogger.

North America list
1.     Craig Weiss (Position last year: 2)
2.     Elliott Masie (Position last year: 1)
3.     Tom Kuhlmann (Position last year: 3)
4.     Harold Jarche (Position last year: 5)
5.     Patti Shank (Position last year: 6)
6.     Aaron Silvers, a designer, technologist and strategist responsible for helping to bring into being learning technologies – notably SCORM and Experience API (otherwise known as ‘Tin Can’).
7.     Debbie Richards – Texas-based President of Creative Interactive Ideas.
8.     Cathy Moore - e-learning blogger. (Position last year: 4)
9.     Tony Karrer – CEO and consulting CTO of TechEmpower.
10.  Jay Cross - a writer, commentator and speaker. (Position last year: 7)

Europe List
1.     Rebecca Stromeyer (Position last year: 1)
2.     Richard Straub - the secretary general of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), an advisor to the EU on all things to do with e-learning. (Position last year: 2)
3.     Christopher Pappas
4.     Helge Scherlund - the Denmark-based writer and blogger on e-learning topics. (Position last year: 3)
5.     Armin Hopp - founder and president of Speexx and a member of ELIG. (Position last year: 4)
6.       Laura Overton
7.     Thea Payome - editor of the Germany-based CheckPoint eLearning ezine and website. (Position last year: 5)
8.     Iva Matasić - CEOat Consulio, Inc – a Croatia-based consultancy, specialising in online learning technologies. (Position last year: 9)
9.     Dr Ladislava (‘Vlad’ka’) Knihova - a key champion, user and publisher of e-learning applications within the corporate and academic sectors in the Czech Republic. (Position last year: 8)
10.  Donald H Taylor –speaker, blogger and online technologies pundit.

UK List
1.     Laura Overton (Position last year: 1)
2.     Jane Hart – a workplace learning and collaboration advisor, writer and international speaker who’s active on social media. (Position last year: 5)
3.     Donald H Taylor - chairman of the annual Learning Technologies conference and chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute. (Position last year: 2)
4.       Gillian Broadhead – social media activist and a director of market analysts Learning Light and the E-Learning Centre.
5.     Martin Baker - CEO of the Charity Learning Consortium (CLC). (Position last year: 6)
6.     Clive Shepherd - a writer and commentator on the online learning scene. (Position last year: 3)
7.     David Wilson – managing director of elearnity and a long-time commentator on the learning technologies sector.
8.     Ben Betts - CEO of HT2 and a specialist in collaborative and game-based learning principles, focusing on engaging learners in online collaborative learning.
9.     Charles Jennings - a speaker and thought leader. (Position last year: 8)
10.  Julie Wedgwood – consultant on the use of learning technology. (Position last year: 9)

Asia-Pacific list
1.     Sahan Chattopadhyay (Position last year: 7)
2.     Sunder Ramachandran
3.     Ryan Tracey - e-learning manager at AMP, Advisory Board member at eLearn Magazine, author of magazine articles and writer of the E-Learning Provocateur blog. (Position last year: 6)
4.     Anne Bartlett-Bragg - managing director Asia-Pacific of the Ripple Effect Group, executive director of the Learning Technologies User Group and contributor to the Ripple Effect Group blog. (Position last year: 5)
5.     Abhijit Bhaduri - author and also chief learning officer of Wipro. Based in Bangalore, India.
6.     Amit Garg – co-founder of Upside Learning, m-learning evangelist, international speaker and contributor to the Upside Learning Blog. (Position last year: 1)
7.     Manish Gupta - CEO of G-Cube Solutions; director of Vivo Collaboration and speaker on performance support, experiential learning, gamification and just-in-time learning. (Position last year: 8)
8.     Joyce Seitzinger - author of the Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers, an international speaker and writer of the Cat’s Pyjamas blog. (Position last year: 4)
9.     Manish Mohan - senior vice president at NIIT, a mentor at e3cube and writer of the Learn and Lead blog. (Position last year: 2)
10.  Michelle Ockers – Sydney based organisational learning practitioner.

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