Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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B Modular Learning: From Concept to Business Impact Speaker: Ken Hubbell, Ingersoll Rand The concept of modular learning has been a popular conversation piece in learning circles for decades. Over the past four years, Ken's team has taken the conversation off the drawing board and into their business to create a truly modular framework for scalable, sustainable learning. This session will showcase three practical examples of modular learning, provide some guidelines for implementing a similar strategy in your own businesses, and a preview of what is on the horizon with Tin Can API and other technology integration. Key learning objectives are: Defning modular learning today; Applying a modular approach to meet your business objectives; Select the right delivery medium for each learning need; and, Integrating new learning technology into modular learning. After this session, participants will be able to analyze their learning programs and apply modular techniques to improve learner engagement and program sustainability. Key takeaways include using the LMS for more than just tracking course completions and developing blended solutions that go beyond e-learning. T "Leaning Out" your E-courseware Development Process Speakers: David Haskins and Manon Bourgeois, Export Development Canada EDC began using Lean methodology with the objective of transforming business processes, and driving value into every step when serving customers. To embed the Lean training, the employee development team applied the Lean principles in reviewing the e-courseware development process in order to be more customercentric, streamlined, with faster turnaround times and more predictable outcomes. In this presentation, participants will learn simple guidelines on how they can apply Lean principles to their own e-courseware process and view templates included in an instructional designer toolkit that was built to ensure continuous improvement and consistency. In this session, you will learn: The basic principles of Lean, and how they can be applied to the e-courseware development process to be more customer-centric and streamlined for effective learning results; To identify how the instructional designer toolkit maintains continuous improvement in the e-courseware process and development; and, To apply basic principles and methodology of Lean to their own e-courseware development process using simple guidelines and templates presented during the session. TRACKS: August 26-28, 2013 | Anaheim Convention Center S T B Strategy & Leadership Technology at Work Best Practces R E! L! Research & Trends Best of Elearning! Learning! 100 ucts and services in China and the myths that persist about China in the West by reading the getAbstract summary, "What Chinese Want: Culture, Communism, and China's Modern Consumer." Micro-learning incorporates learning activities into an employee's daily routine better. Nuggets of insights are presented in more engaging ways than traditional practices. The advantages micro-learning provides include availability and accessibility. Employees learn while on-the-move, and they have more time and independence for their learning activities. Micro-learning moments improve the performance and effectiveness of an activity. The aggregate effect of these moments is long-term talent development for a person and for an organization. Attend this session to discover how companies provide workers with trusted and powerful micro-learning assets to ensure the greatest productivity and employee engagement. S Organizations Stop Growing When Leaders Stop Growing Speakers: Ravi Kulkarni and Lynn Whitney Turner, Clearvision Alliance Why do some businesses scale while others fail? The ultimate competitive advantage for any organization is in its people's ability to align, execute and renew itself faster than their competitors. (Organizational health: The ultimate competitive advantage, Keller/Price). To do so requires becoming a learning organization, and learning starts at the top. B Learning & Development Emerging Measurement Practices Speaker: Jeff Berk, KnowledgeAdvisors This presentation will share the latest topics on the minds of L&D; practitioners as it relates to emerging measurement practices including executive reporting, social learning, scrap learning, strategic program measurement, and building a business case for analytics. Glimpse into the latest trends and challenges on the minds of thought leaders and practitioners and glean creative insights to augment your learning analytics strategies now and beyond. 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM B CalSAE Regional Meeting and Luncheon Speakers: TBD Calling all association and non-proft leaders. You are invited to join the California Society of Association Executives' regional meeting on Tuesday at the Marriott Hotel. This is a great opportunity to network, learn and share with your association peers. Includes lunch and sessions. Separate registration required at www.calsae.org. 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM T Drive Performance with Micro-Learning Speaker: Michel Koopman, getAbstract Micro-learning helps address immediate business needs within moments. For example, an executive taking a trip to China for meetings to solidify a business deal can learn about the core values that guide China's people, how to sell prod- 10 T Genghis Khan Never Used WebEx — But What If He Did? Speaker: Wayne Turmel, GreatWebMeetings.com In today's work world where virtual and remote teams are all the talk, it's important to remember that the foundations of team communication are as old as the ages, only the tools have changed. In this humorous, candid and relevant presentation we look at how Genghis Khan and the Mongols ruled half the known world in a time before technology. What did he know that today's project managers and leaders don't? In this session, you will learn: What Genghis Khan and your team have in common; Three things great teams do to hold it together; and, How to assess your team's communication environment. B UCLA Mentoring/Coaching Program for Online Instruction and Facilitation Speaker: Dr. Carla Lane, The Education Coalition Online faculty development has become too complicated to cover even the basics in short training courses. Traditional training courses no longer meet the needs of SMEs who must produce media rich courses that create self-directed learners in a facilitated environment. Clearly, there are too many topics from ELCE 2013 | REGISTER TODAY! VISIT ELCESHOW.COM OR CALL 888-980-8845 * Additional fee applies.