At Least One Tenth of Top Young Trainers Believe in Data Mining

Training Magazine had recently published a list of 40 of the training industry’s rising young stars (age 40 and younger). This is the “first annual list”, i.e. the beginning of a tradition. Nominated by industry peers or self-nominated, the decision about the finalists was determined by a panel comprising members of Training’s Editorial Advisory Board.

Among the Top Ten, one can find Gideon Zailer, CEO and founder of e-learning knowledge solutions of Israel. Besides being a very nice person, Gideon is very interested in data mining in the context of improving the software his company developes.

So, we can surely say that EDM is well established within the agenda of at least a tenth of the Top Young Trainers world-wide. If this is the case also for the education researchers, EDM2008 will be very crowdy…