E.W. Mitchell's Learning Consortium Copyright 2008
Registration: 8:00am - 4:00pm
Breakfast: 7:00am - 8:30am
Lunch: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Breakfast: 7:00am - 8:30am
Lunch: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Conference Session Day 1
Monday, April 28, 2008
Designing the Blended Learning Landscape
| 8:30am - 9:45am Opening Keynote Address- The Real Goal of Blended Learning - Achieving and Exceeding your Organizational Objectives In this world of exciting technology available for learning and development, we sometimes lose focus on exactly what goals we are trying to achieve. This keynote will focus on the real reason we train; to meet the Organization’s objectives. Great Take Aways: • Learn how to develop a road map to tie blended learning back into your organization’s objectives. • Tools you can use to assess what blended learning techniques work best for each learner within your organization. Warren Krompf Powell Goldstein, LLP |
| 10:00am - 10:45pm DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE: Blending the Best of the ‘Old’ with the Best of the ‘New’ Your organizations’ needs are constantly changing. In order to remain competitive and serve a more diverse and global employee population, you need to have a comprehensive, integrated learning architecture. This architecture must be designed to support and enable both learning and on-the-job performance. It’s important to build this architecture on the foundation of traditional approaches such as instructor-led training, mentoring and coaching, and now, e-courses or e-learning. And, it’s critical to understand and incorporate new approaches such as simulations and games, blended learning, formalized-informal learning, WEB 2.0 technologies, and new forms of learning-at-the-speed of work. This is the session for those ready to take a serious look at all of your organizations’ learning options ‘old and new’ and then blend them into a comprehensive learning architecture. Come and join this fun dialogue with Lance Dublin, industry veteran, consultant and author. Lance Dublin Dublin Consulting |
| 11:00am - 12:00pm Wikis & Web 2.0 Technology Wiki is the Hawaiian term for rapid. So let’s look at how this term can translate into being relevant for your company. Web 2.0 technology and Social Learning all provide a solution for knowledge capital and real-time information sharing to foster: • Informal/Social learning, • "Communities of Practice" • Repeatable business processes faster problem solving skills for your audience; employees, sales, constituents, partners, etc. Cindy Rockwell CustomerVision, Inc. |
| 1:00pm - 2:15pm Finding the Right Blend to Take Your Training Beyond the Classroom Emerging technologies, demographic shifts, and increasingly busy schedules are creating new expectations for workplace learning. Today’s busy workers want training that is focused, flexible and readily accessible when needed. Instructional designers are increasingly being challenged to find new approaches to meet training needs. This session offers an inside look at innovative ways to expand learning opportunities beyond the confines of the traditional classroom. Through a combination of case studies and detailed examples of successful solutions, you will discover new ways to make information available to your learners. You will leave this session with a detailed understanding of how to blend games, simulations, performance support systems and Web portals into your training projects. Rosemary Craft and Janice Ware Vertex Solutions, Inc. |
| 2:30pm - 3:15pm Fundamentals of Interactive Simulation Design This session is designed to provide participants with a hands-on introduction to the features and functions of Captivate through the development of an interactive simulation. Application-Focused Learning Objectives • Successfully create a simulation with Captivate • Add interactivity to a Captivate movie with buttons and text fields • Add tests items to a Captivate simulation • Publish a Captivate as both a simulation and student handout Shawn Stiles Pfizer, Inc. |
| 2:30pm - 3:15pm The Blended Learning Journey The objective of the presentation is to identify the variables for designing a successful Blended Learning Program. Considering culture, content & delivery options, learner preferences, integrated and enabling technologies, and business objectives, participants will be able to identify the best components (mix) to build an effective blended learning course. In this session I will explore: • Blended Learning - Discussion of the different definitions of Blended Learning. • Culture - Discuss impact of culture on delivery options Blended Models Present and discuss examples of blended learning approaches. • Content & Delivery options - Present and discuss possible options for developing blended learning from existing models, e.g., Bloom's New Taxonomy. • Learner Characteristics - Present learner attributes. • Enabling Learning Technologies - Explain the different learning technologies to consider supporting blended learning. • Putting it together - Summarize all the considerations when considering a blended strategy. Fritz Petree Petree & Associates |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm LEARNING 2.0: What, How, and Why Care There is surely a lot of buzz about Web 2.0 and Learning 2.0. Blogs and v-logs, wikis and group chat, podcasts and VODS, games and simulations, m-learning and rapid e-learning, and social networks are becoming a part of the ongoing conversation among learning professionals. It’s time to know what these new learning technologies and approaches are, how you can use them, and why they are important to your learners and your organization. Come and join this fun dialogue with Lance Dublin, industry veteran, consultant and author to understand how to best integrate and leverage these ‘new’ approaches and technologies to make Learning 2.0 real in your organization. Lance Dublin Dublin Consulting |