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| Learning as a Business Strategy |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Bill Wilson, Inner Harbor Partners
The industry is moving from the design and evaluation of training, to the design and evaluation of a learning strategy that drives business results. You can no longer be an e-Learning or single solution specialist – your focus must be on a blended strategy that utilizes a wide range of solutions. This strategy changes how people behave on the job to contribute to the desired business outcomes. To be successful, the learning team must work closely with the business unit, and be a full partner in designing the right interventions to reach the business outcomes, as opposed to being told “we need training” that you know won’t reach the desired results. How do you develop this relationship with the business unit? How do you develop e-Learning with business outcomes in mind?
Participants in this session will learn the framework used to develop solid learning programs that create measurable business results, and then apply the framework to a business challenge or scenario. This practice in developing Level 3 and Level 4 outcome measurements will give you the knowledge, skill, and attitude needed for each behavior to support the outcomes. Session participants will experience how e-Learning connects with achieving Level 4 business outcomes.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to better blend your learning strategy
- How to build a relationship with business partners
- A model to design learning for business results
- How to develop strong Level 4 measurements
Audience:
Intermediate designers and developers who are familiar with Kirkpatrick's levels of evaluation. |
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| Research Panel Discussion: Emerging Technologies and the Future of e-Learning |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Host: Brent Schlenker, The eLearning Guild
Panel:
Ellen Wagner, Sage Road Solutions, LLC
Kevin Martin, Aberdeen Group
David Mallon, Bersin & Associates
Colleen Carmean, Sage Road Solutions/eLearning Guild Research
Janet Clarey, Brandon Hall Research
The Great e-Learning Research Panel was so popular last year that we are doing it again. We have looked for the best e-Learning research available, and asked the authors to attend.
In this session, the researchers will share with you highlights and insights from their latest research on emerging technologies and the future of e-Learning. Later in the conference, each researcher will lead a separate session where he or she will dive in-depth into their data. This initial session, then, is an excellent way to get an overview of the issues and decide which in-depth sessions to attend later. Facilitating this panel will be Brent Schlenker, the New Media & Emerging Technologies Analyst at The eLearning Guild, who will keep the discussion lively, informative, fun, and practical.
We will ask the panel questions on such topics as the rising tide of informal learning, learning 2.0 technologies (like wikis, blogs, and other user-generated content), getting learners’ managers involved in learning, the importance of evaluation, and even topics so new and hot that they are just emerging from the data as we write these words.
Having some of the leading industry analysts on the same platform will enable us to look for trends, verify conclusions, and get a glimpse of e-Learning’s future. We ask you, the audience, to reflect on the implications of the research for the field, and for your own practices. By gathering this collective wisdom all in one room, together we can prepare ourselves for today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s future. This wisdom is not to be missed.
In this session, you will learn:
- The most pressing trends and issues facing e-Learning
- The approaches that are successful in dealing with these issues
- The data that supports these different approaches
- How to apply the current research to improve your e-Learning initiatives
Audience:
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| Creative e-Learning Makeovers: Practical Ways to Redesign Your Courses |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
David Anderson, Articulate
Social learning, informal learning, and virtual worlds are some of the hottest topics affecting learning organizations today. But while these are essential elements in any organization's learning strategy, courseware continues to be the foundation of corporate e-Learning. With the adoption of rapid authoring tools, course design is no longer only performed by expert designers. Trainers, SMEs, coordinators, and even instructional designers are faced with designing and developing e-Learning.
In this session, you’ll learn how successful visual design, like instructional design, doesn't occur by accident, and can be traced to fundamental design principles anyone can learn. We’ll look at common e-Learning courses, and identify actionable makeover opportunities for designing more engaging courses. If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about the visual design process as it relates to e-Learning, this session is the perfect place to begin. You’ll learn practical techniques for creating more visually effective courses, while identifying ways to create custom themes for diverse topics.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to design graphics libraries, mood boards, and visual style guides for custom designs
- How to design appropriate themes and layouts for specific course topics
- Ways to use emphasis, focus, and composition techniques to enhance learning graphics
- Ways to use type to align your visual voice to your instructional voice
- Where to find free and inexpensive Flash widgets for learning interactions
Audience:
Beginner to intermediate designers and developers who are comfortable writing courses and using authoring tools to develop. If you've never designed a course, you won't get as much as someone who has either dabbled or actually developed. |
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| The Performance Ecosystem and the Future of e-Learning |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Clark Quinn, Quinnovation
It's not news that our learning models are dated. Designed for industrial efficiency, not learning effectiveness, they're unengaging and ineffective – yet they persist. On the other hand, technology has advanced to the stage that Arthur C. Clarke's line that, “any truly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” is now true of our ability to deliver e-Learning. We have magic, what should we do? We know that learning works better spaced over time, not massed in an event; that our minds don't work in a vacuum, but we're a product of our environment and our experience; and that where and when we are can be as important as what we know. Does this give us any leverage?
In this session, we will explore the concept of “distributed” learning. We'll tie together spaced practice, mobile learning, and cognition in the wild, and build a picture of a more coherent performance “ecosystem” that can guide rethinking what we can do with our support for learning. Please join us in rethinking e-Learning, redesigning learning experiences, and reinventing the future of organizational learning.
In this session, you will learn:
- What distributed cognition means, how it works, and why it's important for your learners
- The relationships between practice and time that make learning “stick”
- A more flexible model of learning delivery for better outcomes
- How a distributed notion of learning means more organizational success
Audience:
Intermediate and advanced learners who have experience with traditional e-Learning. |
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| Actions Speak Louder than Words: Creating Meaningful e-Learning Interactions |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Ethan Edwards, Allen Interactions Inc.
Nearly everyone, particularly learners, expresses frustration with the limited range of interactivity found in many e-Learning programs. Arbitrary multiple-choice and true-and-false questions, even when masquerading under flashy game-like interfaces, fail to engage learners’ attention. Worse yet, they usually fail to teach. This is partially a result of the limitations inherent in most authoring environments, which facilitate and even encourage designing instruction around a limited set of pre-formatted question styles. However, even working within the constraints of basic interactivity, it is possible to design e-Learning activities that will engage, motivate, and captivate the learner’s imagination and post-training performance.
In this session, participants will see actual examples of corporate e-Learning to illustrate how simple design changes in crafting user activities can transform learners’ outcomes. Primary strategies include: incorporating navigation functions into interactivity, using simple interaction styles to represent real behaviors which require greater learner effort, using visual contextual elements to create meaning in interactions, and focusing actions on enabling long-term mastery.
In this session, you will learn:
- Why traditional interactivity formats fail to accomplish learning objectives
- How to integrate navigation functionality into meaningful content presentation
- How to match interaction complexity to intended performance outcomes
- Why increased learner effort is critical to long-term retention
Audience:
Novice, intermediate, and advanced designers and developers who are familiar with common approaches to e-Learning. |
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| Microcycle Testing & Review: Strategies for Faster and Better Course QA |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Garin Hess, Rapid Intake, Inc.
With rapid e-Learning tools you can quickly create a lot of courses, but how do you make sure they are ready to go out the door? Capturing and managing course review feedback is often an afterthought, and is one of the most likely culprits to throw your timeline off.
In this session, you will learn how using the right tools, and making simple but significant changes in your processes, you can reduce your quality assurance testing time by as much as eighty percent – and get better results. Sound too good to be true? Come and see how making some pointed changes in process and technology can dramatically improve your project schedules.
In this session, you will learn:
- About a better review process for your e-Learning courses
- How to use Rapid Intake review solutions for course review
- The benefits of course review
- How to also build courses
Audience:
Novice, intermediate, and advanced designers and developers. |
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| A Case Study of Micro-Blogging for Learning at Qualcomm |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
B.J. Schone, Qualcomm
John Polaschek, Qualcomm Incorporated
Traditional means of communication such as meetings, phone calls, and e-mail manage to capture a fraction of an organization’s tribal knowledge. However, hallway conversations and other informal discussions typically vanish into the ether. Ideas are lost, and innovation is hindered. New tools such as micro-blogs allow employees to have informal conversations with peers spanning the entire organization. These connections allow employees to learn from each other, and share ideas that may otherwise be lost or forgotten. Qualcomm, a Fortune 500 company, launched a 6-month micro-blogging pilot in May, 2009. The goal of this pilot was to share information, connect employees, and archive tribal knowledge.
This case-study session will describe the pilot, outline the pros and cons of micro-blogging within an organization, and show the impact on the organization. This will be an open look at Qualcomm’s experience, and participants will discover real-world implications of micro-blogging within a global organization.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to select a micro-blogging platform
- How to market and communicate micro-blogging to employees
- The challenges and key success factors for implementing micro-blogging
- How to measure the effectiveness of your micro-blogging initiative
Audience:
Novice, intermediate, and advanced designers and developers. No specific knowledge of micro-blogging is required. |
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| Getting Started Building Flash Facebook Apps for Social Learning |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Dan Carr, Dan Carr Design
As my own use of social networking applications has grown, so has my interest in building Flash widgets and applications for this environment. Earlier this year, Adobe and Facebook announced the release of ActionScript 3.0 Facebook APIs and Flash integration standards for the Facebook platform. Recently I've been exploring the APIs, and experimenting with the possibilities.
Participants in this session will learn the basic concepts involved, and how to get started in your own experimentation.
In this session, you will learn:
- The options for integrating Flash into Facebook
- How to get started as an application developer on Facebook.com
- How to install the ActionScript 3.0 Facebook API
- How to build a simple Flash widget
- How to publish the application to Facebook
Audience:
There will be general information that will be accessible to anyone who is interested. The ActionScript 3.0 sections assume that participants are familiar with ActionScript coding. |
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| Five Easy Steps to Create e-Manuals for the iPhone and iPod |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Leslie Kirshaw, WebAdvantage, Inc.
Every so often technology dramatically changes the way we do things. In today’s world of constant need for just-in-time knowledge, it is urgent to equip learners with creative delivery methods to the information they need, when they need it. Now is the time to improve on the old ways of creating and distributing manuals. This new approach is so superior to the existing practice, that it will revolutionize the way we use training manuals. In today’s world of training, the “eManual” will greatly enhance the old way of doing things, and set a new trend that training professionals will want to adapt.
In this session, participants will learn how to convert existing training manuals, or create new manuals, that can be delivered and read on iPhones and iPods. You’ll learn five easy steps to developing eManuals for just-in-time training with mobile access to course materials. You’ll discover how to use a free iTunes application to create scalable and innovative mobile access to text-based content. You’ll get an overview of the eManual and the current state of the e-document industry, learn the advantages of the eManual format, understand eManual design considerations, and get a step-by-step guide to eManual creation.
In this session, you will learn:
- Five easy steps to developing electronic Manuals
- The advantages of the eManual format
- Design considerations for eManuals
- A review of eManual features, including search and bookmarking
- The eManual cost savings opportunity
Audience:
Novice designers and developers. |
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| Maximizing Your Development Team Capability with XML Authoring |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Joe Ganci, Dazzle Technologies Corp.
Detailed descripXML is everywhere, and in no small measure it has taken the e-Learning development world by storm in several ways. XML is not difficult, but it sometimes takes a bit of a push to get past the initial resistance to learning it. XML lets you design your own data language, and then use the language you create across many different venues, allowing you to deliver your learning in one form or another to the desktop, the Web, portable devices, and printed material.
In this session, participants will learn how to use XML to their advantage by focusing on how several tools use and output XML. If you don't already use XML, be prepared to be inspired in how you can make your e-Learning easier to develop, deliver, and maintain!
In this session, you will learn:
- The advantages of using XML
- How XML is structured
- The use of XML to e-Learning development
Audience:
E-Learning developers, designers, or managers who have not worked with XML before, and who wish to learn to apply XML to e-Learning development. |
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| Strategies for Implementing Successful Online Training Solutions |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Beth Gilbert, Citrix Online
Technology-based learning has tripled in the past decade, and the market for synchronous and asynchronous learning tools is projected to increase dramatically in the coming years. While e-Learning is not a new concept, corporate learning online is a much newer idea. By incorporating an online training solution, corporate customers can make huge differences to specific industries – those that otherwise would be overlooked by using more complex solutions. By understanding the needs of the training market, individuals and small businesses can cut back on expenditures, and increase productivity and revenue, by changing how they utilize online training solutions for their needs.
This session will detail strategies, and provide guidance and solutions, for those who want to eliminate the complexity from online learning tools, allowing them to instead focus on reaching corporate customers in a more efficient manner. Participants will learn how, by introducing a simpler approach to online tools, the training and e-Learning market will no longer have to rely on traditional online products that do not incorporate the specific learning functions necessary to provide a full training experience.
In this session, you will learn:
- The details surrounding the market for technology-based learning
- The correct online training solutions to utilize to reach key industries
- How to differentiate between too-complex e-Learning solutions
Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and developers who are familiar with distance learning applications, collaboration tools, or training curricula, and who have a desire to port them to online platforms. |
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| Video Rendering and Formats: Getting It Right the First Time |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Phil Cowcill, Canadore College
Video has become a very big part of many e-Learning applications. However, rendering out video to the best quality and the lowest bandwidth can be difficult.
This session will step you through some of the basic editing inside of Adobe Premier CS4. Once the video has been assembled, we will go step-by-step through Adobe’s Media Encoder to generate a variety of videos. You will learn about which codecs tend to perform best, and what settings to use when you want to distribute the video over the Internet. Participants at this session will also receive a conversion chart explaining the different codecs and settings for video under a variety of circumstances. |
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| Using Immersive Learning Simulations to Train Management Teams |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Anya Andrews, Novonics Corporation
Team simulations remain popular in the management domain due to their proven ability to foster the development of high-impact leadership skills. At the same time, Experiential Learning (EL) methods frequently require considerable time and resource expenditures, which can be significantly reduced by transitioning team training into virtual environments.
Participants in this session will discover innovative approaches towards using Immersive Learning Simulations (ILS) for management-team training purposes. You’ll learn effective design and development techniques for team-oriented ILS solutions, as well as see specific examples of ILS courseware designed to augment the management curricula at a major defense university.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to apply experiential learning methods in a virtual environment
- How to use ILS for team training
- Effective ILS design and development techniques
- Specific examples of applying ILS courseware in a defense academic setting
Audience:
Novice, intermediate, and advanced designers and developers, ranging from those who are just starting with using virtual environments for team training purposes to participants with advanced background in team training. |
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| Moodle: How It’s Changing the Face of Corporate e-Learning |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Cammy Bean, Kineo
Steven Lowenthal, Kineo
A 2008 eLearning Guild LMS survey revealed that Moodle is now the most-used learning platform, with 18% of responding corporations using Moodle. Why? Because it is open source and easily customizable, giving organizations a low-cost entry point into a high-powered Learning Management System. In this session, you'll see why, in a period of financial restraint, you need to consider Moodle as an integral part of your organization's learning strategy.
Participants in this session will learn how Moodle is being used in corporations. You'll see case studies that show Moodle being used as a full corporate LMS, a managers' academy, a sales portal for resellers, and an online assessment center. You'll explore the open source advantage, why Moodle will become the platform of choice for organizations, and why it is license free. You’ll discover its range of functionality, the forms of learning and performance Moodle supports, the ability to customize it to your needs quickly and cost-effectively, the range of custom modules available, Moodle forums and community support, and its overall ease of use.
In this session, you will learn:
- How corporations are currently using Moodle
- The benefits of Moodle through case studies
- The degree to which you can customize Moodle and design options
- How Moodle can manage both classroom and blended learning activities
- The key Moodle components necessary for corporations
- Future Moodle developments
Audience:
Novice, intermediate, and advanced instructional designers, training managers, IT staff, and those with responsibility for the delivery of training within an organization. |
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| Tips for Providing Fair, Accessible, and Efficient Online Assessments |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Jeff Place, Questionmark Corporation
Today’s e-Learning organizations must efficiently provide fair and accessible assessments to an increasingly mobile, globally dispersed, and multilingual workforce.
This session will provide participants with new perspectives on the changes taking place in today’s workforce, and describe how e-Learning developers can utilize current technologies to provide comprehensive, accessible, inclusive, and efficient learning measurement.
In this session, you will learn:
- Question-writing tips to share with SMEs to enhance the quality of “crowdsourced” content
- How to create a “test blueprint” to ensure more reliable and actionable results from assessments
- The considerations for mobile delivery of assessments
- Applications and benefits of online assessment for ensuring regulatory compliance
- Techniques for understanding item and test reliability and validity
Audience:
Novice, intermediate, and advanced designers, developers, and managers who have some experience with authoring, administering, and managing assessments or assessment programs. |
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