On Thursday, March 11, 2010, the first annual forum took place in Lvov (15/03/2010)

On Thursday, March 11, 2010, the first annual forum took place in Lvov. It was devoted to e- learning questions (e- learning Forum) and representatives of the ISM Ukraine Company participated in it. They were Alexander Stulov, Andrey Kravchuk and Artem Serdyuk. Ukrainian, Russian and American experts of business and education represented 28 reports. More than 50 domestic universities and near 30 commercial companies took part in this event.

The main thought of the ISM Ukraine representatives' reports was European tendencies of creation and using e-learning systems. The report "Choosing the best e-learning tool for solving problems of a company" by Alexander Stulov has contemplated criteria , which companies of different segments of the market demand to the training content creation's tools. Artem Serdyuk made 2 reports. The first was "Collaborative creation of training content by different directions' specialists". This report opened concepts of experts' companies in creation e-learning courses (community-based authoring). The second report, which is called "Interchange between business and education- why it doesn't work in Ukraine", it has been opened problems of transferring knowledge and technologies between universities and commercial companies. The reports were successful and cased lively discussion of both academic and business section of the forum.

Also e-learning resources were presented at the forum, which had been made by ISM eCompany: Sana EasyGenerator (it's a tool for creating and publishing of e-learning courses in SCORM - in suitable form) and Sana Learning Portal (e-learning courses and users' managing system). All these mentioned products were offered to all universities and business-schools, which had taken part in this forum, to use for free. It cased a great interest in their representatives.

The interest of Ukrainian state and commercial universities and, of course, of business schools, gives us possibility to make a conclusion that e-learning's demand has been already formed, primarily in education sphere. But universities don't see, at least now, how e-learning tools can solve their current problems. That is why they are not ready to put their efforts and investments in e-learning resources. They prefer free programs and small projects. Concerning commercial companies, so there we can say the e-learning demand is only at creation stage, so their interest to this event was more introductory.