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Featured Learning Activities

The Annual Gathering 2008 offers these Featured Learning Activities to showcase some of our industries leading thinkers and practitioners as they discuss the most current e-Learning challenges we all face. The Annual Gathering program offers a wide variety of sessions — more than 120 in all — on key issues that face e-Learning professionals. The 18 sessions listed below were chosen because...

  • The speakers are presenting the topic from a unique viewpoint, and/or
  • The session focuses on an especially challenging issue, and/or
  • The topic is currently of special interest to e-Learning professionals.

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Note that these featured sessions are led by both well-known industry "experts" and e-Learning professionals who, though perhaps not well known, bring a high level of expertise, real-world experience, and passion to the topic.

Sessions with a  icon indicate an audio GuildCast is available for you to listen to.

A View from the Trenches of Simulation Development 


Alec Lamon & Charles Rejonis, Wharton Learning Lab, The Wharton School

 

Situation-based Learning Design: A Research-inspired Model for Wildly Enhanced Performance 


Will Thalhiemer, Work-Learning Research, Inc.

ID 2.0 — Collaboration in a Multi-Department Training Organization 


Bruce Baumgarten & Shane Verheyen, California State Automobile Association

This Isn’t your Mama’s Training: Implementing Learning 2.0 at eBay 


Eric Hunter & Rich Reitter, eBay

Designing Collaborative Learning Environments: A Case Study 


Brandon Carson, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Introduction to Object Oriented Programming with ActionScript 3.0


Scott Hutton, MindCross Training

Case Study: Learning on the Move at PricewaterhouseCoopers


Sarah Lindsell & Helen Gibson, PricewaterhouseCoopers

5 Ways to Improve Online Synchronous Project Management Training Programs 


Michael Culligan, LINGOS

Wink and a Wiki 


Debi D. Crabtree, Hamilton County Virtual School

The Current and Future State of SCORM and Other e-Learning Standards 


Rovy Branon, ADL

Case Study: Moodle in a Corporate Environment 


Al Padkowsky, Raritan Inc

Quick and Easy Ways to Get Started with Serious Games


Anne Derryberry, imserious.net

Managing the Change from an Instructor-led to a Learner-centric Environment 


Lloyd Chad Jones & Thomas Hammond, United States Strategic Command

Telling Stories with Pictures 


Steve Haskin, S>Media & Robert Flores, Edward Jones

Analyze This! Use Web Analytics to See if your e-Learning Is Truly Engaging 


Ryan Sparks, Care2Learn

Salvaging Authorware Content


Patrick Glynn, Parrotworks

Implementing a CRM Tool Using Blended Learning: Salesforce.com Case Study 


Liz Crawbuck, Qualcomm Enterprise Services

What Not to Design – Visual Makeovers for e-Learning Content 


Donna Safko, Mudpuddle Creations

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