Nancy Munro, Founder & CEO, KnowledgeShift | Speaker Bio
Presentation: The Marketing of Training: Using Low-Cost Tools
Whether you run your own training organization or sell training within your organization, learn how to leverage leading-edge technology platforms to promote your training. Nancy Munro will provide examples of how to use podcasting, video, RSS, and Google to get the word out. She will also point out how many of these tools can cross-pollinate and provide insightful analytics on what methods are getting the biggest bang for your buck.
Jennifer De Vries, CPT, President and Chief Solutions Architect, BlueStreak Learning | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Project Management for Rapid eLearning Projects
As elearning professionals, we’re often asked to meet tough, if not impossible, deadlines. Sometimes it seems that the only way to make these deadlines is to give up sleep and the things we enjoy most. It doesn’t need to be that way! Good project management can mean the difference between having a life, and spending all your waking hours at work. In this session, we will review several case studies of large, rapid-turnaround projects, including the project plan, the resources and the dependencies. We will discuss how to maintain your sanity in the midst of insane deadlines and workloads. In this session you will learn:
- What Rapid eLearning is
- When to use Rapid eLearning techniques
- How to produce schedules for Rapid eLearning projects
- Tips for selecting appropriate team members
- Tools to help manage and track your progress
Educational Sessions
Laura Bunte, Principal Consultant, CARA | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Answering ‘How Much Will That Cost?’ and Other Questions During a Training Engagement
Participants will be given the opportunity to witness and discuss the process CARA uses in assisting clients to understand the data used to calculate quotes for eLearning. Participants will use Karl Kapp’s eLearning development matrix and an excel spreadsheet tool and experience the use of these tools in answering ‘How much?’ Participants will have the opportunity to conduct initial scoping within small groups as a means of experience.
Everett Butler, Title | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Following the Blended Media Recipe
Instructional Designers, like Master Chefs, are always on the lookout for new and better recipes. Both need to be prudent in choosing ingredients so the blend is appealing, tasteful and beneficial. This session will include a demonstration of blended media practices in action. Attendees will learn how to:
- Discover the criteria for selecting media options
- Optimize techniques for leveraging program components
- Craft learning experiences into an evenly blended performance improvement process, thereby causing the whole to become greater than the sum of its parts.
Andy Buzinski, Assistant Director, Education for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Virtual Classroom/Webinar Planning, Procedures and Training Documents
This open forum session will give particpants an opportunity to engage in large and small group discussions on the following topics associated with the development of virtual classrooms/webinars:
- Key concepts
- ID for training software operators
- Documents for planning/design
- WebEx task guides and procedures
- Procedure/reference guides for participants and presenters
- An opening script for presenters
- Success stories
Marco Antonio Chávez Aguayo, Professor, University of Barcelona | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Second Life®: The New Technologies as an Incoming Set For Creativity on Innovation Culture and Education
Participants will see how virtual worlds, like Second Life, can be used as a platform to promote cultural projects, artistic virtual productions, and cultural tourism on a real-time basis for a worldwide public connected online. We will use Opera Joven as a case study of an organization that uses the virtual environment to develop projects, reach a wide range of audiences, and grow its team with members from all around the world. Exploring this example will help you to discover new ways to foster cultural exchange, collaboration, production, education and management for your own business. This session can be accessed remotely by the public for free. To participate in the session online, you must be a registered user of Second Life. Access to the session is available here.
Simatoy Chong, HPT Consultant | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Comparing Four Tools: Articulate, Lectora, Captivate, Camtasia
As human performance technologists, we perform analysis and select the most appropriate tool to help our clients fulfill their training requirements. Which tools do we use for eLearning? This session will provide the answers. Chong will share with participants the four most commonly used eLearning solutions/applications (i.e., Adobe Articulate, Lectora, Captivate, and Camtasia). She will compare features and discuss differences among applications. Participants will have an opportunity to see demos of elearning developed with each of these applications.
Ruth Gannon Cook, Ed.D. Asst. Prof. DePaul University | Speaker Bio
Presentation: From Textbooks to Web 3P0s: Keeping Learning Joined at the Brain
Participants will discuss online training and learning, how it is touted, and how it can be misused or maximized for learner retention. All too often trainers will look at the corporate environment, technologies that will be used, and learning objectives with little attention to the learners’ prior experiences and sociocultural histories and environments. If learners’ existent learning can be linked effectively with the new information to be presented, learners are more likely to retain new knowledge (Gannon-Cook, Crawford, 2008). Participants will explore the effective use of semiotic tools that are embedded in the instructional design of materials. Research has demonstrated that Semiotics, if used and embedded in course design and implementation, allows for better acceptance of new knowledge.
Sue Drake, Founder, Drake Resource Group | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Expert Learning Forum: Taking Content Expertise and LMS to the Next Level
Drake Resource Group’s new learning host site leverages the strengths of a powerful LMS, expert content, and an engaging interface design. Yetter Consulting Services (YCS) is one of the partners working with Drake to offer best-of-class course content in a variety of delivery mediums (online, in person, blended solutions and related resources). Being part of the Expert Learning Forum gives YCS’ outstanding tax course a new online presence, and learners everywhere a one-stop learning resource.
Participants will experience the Expert Learning Forum concept as Sue demonstrates the leading-edge interface, content areas, and tools provided by a consortium of experts. Diane Yetter will describe their company’s outcomes as a result of workng with Drake.
Ed Duffy, HPT Consultant | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Who said good training can’t be fun?
As HPT professionals, we are faced with a number of challenges to make sure training is cost effective, meets business objectives, is relevant for learners, and shows a return on investment. Amidst all of these challenges, creating a brand of training that is actually “fun” can pay dividends for learners, stakeholders, and you, the curriculum designer.
Dennis Glenn, Founder of Discourse, LLC | Speaker Bio
Bob Wisniewski, Sr. Vice-President, Starcom MediaVest Group | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Five Keys to Blended Learning
The economy has forced a large number of corporations to rethink their face-to-face instruction model. This presentation will showcase Starcom Media Vest's transition to blended elearning. Dennis will highlight the five key enablers to this successful conversion and provide specific examples of successful blended learning opportunities.
Issue One: Find a Champion
Issue Two: Complete an Asset Inventory
Issue Three: Use Social Networks
Issue Four: Select the Appropriate Technology
Issue Five: Understand Your Assessment Model
Kevin Harvey, Assistant Director of Development, University of Illinois at Chicago Center for the Advancement of Distance Education (CADE) | Speaker Bio
Danny Goldberg, Founder, Learnstorm | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Methods and Strategies to Make Second Life Work for Training and Education
Participants will learn about cutting-edge developments in Second Life via case study. The first study will show how the Center for Advancement of Distance Education (CADE) at UIC has created emergency preparedness training spaces in Second Life, developed a comprehensive curriculum, and implemented a successful strategy for adoption by public health workers. The second case will elaborate a unique approach to introducing Second Life as the "Classroom of the Future" in Wisconsin. For this, CADE has partnered with Learnstorm, which creates structured and directed social networks to accelerate adoption of innovative educational applications.
Angie Hubert, Senior Implementation Consultant at OutStart, Inc. | Speaker Bio
Presentation: How an LCMS Enables Content Single Sourcing and Considerations for Implementing a Single Source Model
Companies often have multiple information and training developers creating similar content for different deliverables. The independent development of documentation, instructor led training, e-learning, and job aids ultimately creates an explosion of redundant content. Compound that with the tight timelines and continuous updates found in the typical development process and it is no surprise that developers are often forced to sacrifice quality to meet deadlines. What if there was a framework combining technology and process that could be leveraged to bring cohesion to the overall development process by producing multiple deliverables from a common source of content while meeting or beating deadlines, improving quality, and eliminating redundancies? In this session we will explore this vision.
Pete Hybert, Past President, CISPI | Speaker Bio
Dottie Soelke, CPT, CIT | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Tools for Collaborating Over the Web
All organizations have witnessed restrictions on travel; teams that are not co-located must rely on collaborating via the web. Unfortunately, this sometimes sounds better and easier than it works. You can waste a lot of your time and your team’s time just trying to figure out which web tool suits your specific needs and then learning how to use that tool. Participants will learn from our experience and the navigation of this learning curve which has evolved over several years. Maybe you have gone through a similar exploration. We will discuss the pros and cons of several web tools and how they can help your distributed work team be productive in a virtual environment. The presenters will be streaming live video of this session here.
Lee Johnsen, President of Partners in Development | Speaker Bio
Presentation: The Difference between eLearning and eLeading
Today, more than seven out of ten teams in corporate America are virtual or remote. As Workplace Learning and Performance Professionals, how do we help these teams achieve optimum productivity? How do we prepare them to leverage people, process, and technology to succeed in a virtual environment? Participants link learning strategy with business strategy to enable virtual and remote teams to accomplish results better, faster, and cheaper. Focus will be given to such topics as trends of a dispersed workforce, key practices for leading virtual and remote teams, media selection, and the importance of trust.
Mike Kemmler, Learning Design Manager, Grant Thornton | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Virtually There: Second Life®
Tighter budgets are making getting employees together for face-to-face training more and more difficult. Yet, learning and business leaders still see the value in networking and culture building, as well as building critical business skills and knowledge. We try to fill the gap with webcasts, many of which are boring lectures with limited interactivity and virtually no acknowledgement of participants. At this session, we will explore Second Life educational islands, and how this technology differs from others in our toolboxes. And, of course, we'll discuss the challenges this medium faces along the way.
Steve Lowenthal, CEO of U.S. Operations, Kineo | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Moodle: Changing the Face of Corporate eLearning
The 2008 eLearning Guild LMS survey revealed that Moodle is now the most used learning platform, with 18% of all corporations of all sizes using Moodle. Why? Because it's open source and easily customizable, giving organizations a low cost entry point into a high-powered Learning Management System. Participants will look at examples of customized Moodle implementations including those used by McDonald’s, BP, Nikon and Cable & Wireless. You'll see why more than ever in a period of financial restraint you need to consider using Moodle as an integral part of your organization's learning strategy.
Becky Lucas, Owner & Principal Consultant of Training Partners Plus, Inc. | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Articulate Collaborative Learning
Becky Lucas will join Marcia Singery, Greg Bunn, Lori Thompson-Zittnan, and Trish Kreidel as they discuss their experience in shared and collaborative learning as part of a project designed specifically to barter instructional design skills in exchange for a structured forum to learn Articulate software and experience producing an elearning course. They will talk about overcoming the fear of the unknown and how shared learning experiences build confidence in learning new skills. Participants will be able to address their own fears and questions regarding software and the skills needed to embrace new technology.
Jane Mackenzie, President, JEM Communications | Speaker Bio
Presentation: eLearning: Is it Right?
Have you found yourself in this situation? The company/boss asks you to “just take the classroom training or documentation and make it elearning” without having considered all the factors that will determine how successful those elearning courses will be. At this session, we will identify the factors you need to consider when deciding to turn documentation or classroom training into elearning and how to communicate these factors to management. This session will be offered online. Registration is free and open to the public. Register online here.
Judy Martins, CLO of Mid American Regional Training INStitute | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Engaging Everyone in eLearning
The most important "e" in elearning is "engagement". Participants will discuss and analyze the four basic personality / learning styles: "Big Picture," "Minute Detail," "Speaker" & "Doer". Participants will collaborate in small groups to define tenants of their assigned style. Then, the large group will listen to the four groups' summary presentations and examine why 75% of these learners will not respond well to basic elearning. The group will discuss ways that we can engage style and explore the kinds of techniques that can be used to get each style involved and keep them involved in the elearning.
Susan MacAurthur, Instructional Designer, PricewaterhouseCoopers | Speaker Bio
Angie Faralli, Instructional Design and Technologies Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers | Speaker Bio
Katherine Dall, Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Using Thiagi for Online Design
Showcase participants looking for creative ways to incorporate interactivity in your eLearning solutions? Join us to gather ideas on how to transfer Thiagi's games and interactive lecture techniques to an eLearning space. You will walk away with samples that you can use in virtual classroom and self-study solutions.
Nancy Munro, Founder and CEO of KnowledgeShift | Speaker Bio
Presentation: How to Create Simulations on Mobile Devices
Statistics state that over 80% of adults in the US carry a cell phone with them at all times. Do we know how to utilize these handy devices to engage learners or are we just replicating web-based content into the mobile-sphere. which really isn’t an effective use of the medium. Utilizing a variety of tools such as mobile WAP content, IVR and SMS, Nancy will provide you with hands on experience of various learning simulations that can easily be created for unique learning environments. Participants are encouraged to have their mobile device ready to participate in some of the simulations demonstrated.
Matthew Murray, Senior Manager and e-Learning Team Lead, PricewaterhouseCoopers | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Training Tax Professionals through Virtual Storylines, Simulations, and Stocks
Participants will experience an online, team-based challenge designed to provide the learner population of tax professionals with an immersive introduction to the investment funds industry. The project incorporates two simulations that are run simultaneously – a virtual stock market challenge and a supporting, character-driven storyline around a fictitious investment consulting company. Witness the use of this emerging technology and how one sector chose to utilize and the witness the result. The presentation concludes with the surprising feedback received from pilot participants, and plans for future developments for the simulations.
Christine O'Malley, Instructional Designer and Developer, Alliant Quality Partners | Speaker Bio
Andrea Grief, Process Improvement Consultant | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Teaching Procedures through eLearning
You know that procedures are a necessary reality, especially in heavily regulated industries such as banking or healthcare. You also know that procedures can be very difficult for the learner to comprehend, especially when they are written using language that is new to them or geared toward a more advanced audience. One reason procedures are difficult to comprehend is because they are presented as flat, one-dimensional products, which they are not. Participants will see a demonstration utilizing elearning to teach company procedures and discover why elearning is preferable to the "Read and Understand" approach many companies take.
Marty Rosenheck, Ph.D., CPT, VP and Chief Learning Strategist at Cedar Interactive | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Using Cognitive Learning Strategies to increase Speed to Proficiency
Do you want to produce highly proficient performers in as short a time as possible, resulting in substantial benefits and savings to your organization? By incorporating strategies from the cognitive learning sciences in our elearning, we can significantly accelerate the process of developing proficient performers. Participants will discuss how to design an elearning model that incorporates seven learning principles from cognitive science (learning by doing, the teachable moment, scaffolding, simple-to-complex, spiraling, integration, and community of learners). In this highly interactive session, we will share ideas and best practices for increasing speed-to-proficiency.
John Schulz, Training Professional | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Five Ways Organizations Get eLearning Wrong
Are your elearning projects getting the results you expected? Do they improve organizational performance in a sustainable way? If not, perhaps you’ve inadvertently stumbled upon one of the ways organizations get elearning wrong. Through interactive, game-style dialogue, participants will explore the top five mistakes organizations make when implementing elearning. The group will spend time reflecting on each issue as it is uncovered, and discuss ways it may be avoided. These mistakes have been identified using a completely unscientific poll of training professionals across several social networks and will be discussed using anecdotes and examples from both the presenter’s and audience’s own experience.
Karolus Smedja, Consultant | Speaker Bio
Presentation: The PowerSuasion Assessment ™: A Travelogue
Have you heard of The PowerSuasion Assessment? Do you know how it can benefit performance? Is one of your performance gaps business communication (i.e., writing)? Participants will be introduced to the PowerSuasion Assessment which provides feedback about what to improve in their communications. A professional assessment of business communication, The PowerSuasion Assessment uses on-the-job writing samples as the data for evaluation. Karolus will present a travelogue of trials and tribulations in creating The PowerSuasion Assessment. Participants will engage in discussion about this new tool and learn how it has been used through its development.
Mark Steiner, President of Mark Steiner, Inc. | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Effectively Selling eLearning in Your Organization
The training industry has long been an industry of promise and potential. From the opening days of classroom delivery, to early CBT applications, to the advent and inclusion of the Web and LMSs, and now to the innovations and rapid ubiquity of Web 2.0. Technology is deepening its interaction with learning solutions. How can we be proactive in promoting and nurturing elearning within organizations as the valuable, key contributor that it can and should be? Join this session as we take a no-holds-barred view on the effective marketing and selling elearning within your organization.
Larry Wotman, Producer | Speaker Bio
John Beckel, Senior 3D Designer, Centrax Corporation| Speaker Bio
Brian Beverly, 3D Animator, Centrax Corporation | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Use of 3D and Video in eLearning
Compelling elearning worlds can be created through the use of 3D development and video. Learn how to identify when customization of 3D and video work best in a given elearning environment. We will showcase best practices and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of usings these technologies. How can we make elearning inviting and engaging? When is 3D to be used over video and video used over 3D? These questions will be explored with a demonstration of video and 3D technologies as integrated into our customized elearning programs. Are you ready to take the next step?
Nadège Young, Vice President - Corporate Sales & Operations, Merrill Brink | Speaker Bio
Presentation: Successful Language Integration for your Global Audience
You have a new product, a new procedure, a new training program. How do you roll it out successfully and economically? In today’s global environment, what is the best method to reach everyone in a timely and cost-effective manner? Participants will share cost and time-saving strategies to help corporations in the rollout of their training programs to global audiences and employees. Explore techniques that save time and money while addressing the performance needs of the organization.
