Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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Monday August 26th, 2013 Sessions e-learning in the corporate and government talent development environments. Are learners who complete game-based e-learning more capable back on the job compared to those using traditional e-learning? This session will share research conducted to answer that question. The research strategy to measure training business impact will be made available to the attendees, as well as a summary of the research results. This not-to-be-missed session will be an eye opener for those looking to increase the business impact of training. E! #M402 Best of Elearning!: Learning & Talent Keynote Theater, Management Systems Hall B Speakers: Jerry Roche, editorial director, Elearning! Media Group and invited panelists Attend this panel discussion and meet the best-in-class learning and talent system solutions of 2013. See side-by-side comparisons. Hear what users say and get advice on which solutions may meet your needs. S #M302 Driving Innovative Workforce Development at Room: 210C the VA Acquisition Academy by Department of Veteran's Affairs Speaker: Louisa H. Schaefer and Richard Garrison, Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Acquisition Academy The VA Acquisition Academy (VAAA) PM Fellows Program is an excellent model of a blended and holistic training program. Throughout the two-year experience, PM Fellows will participate in a combination of classroom and on-the-job training, allowing the participants to apply new skill sets to organizational challenges in real-time. The program also has a robust mentoring and coaching system, with individual mentors matched to each Fellow and a Coach dedicated to each cohort of Fellows. The session will focus on: Components of the PM Fellows Program and the advantages to a blended and holistic learning model; How self-directed learning is incorporated into the program through specialty tracks and individual development plans; and, Technologies' role in the program. 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM B #M204 Creating Irresistible Learning Room: 210D Speaker: Kim Hannan, Equity Residential Creating irresistible training and learning involves a few simple steps. Join this session to discover how to transition the learning culture for your organization using tone, visuals and gamifcation. Participants will see examples of before-and-after learning resources, learn about how to add personality and tone that people will pay attention to, and see that gamifcation is much more than just adding a "Jeopardy" quiz to the end of an e-learning module. And, it's really not as hard as you think. You will learn to: Create an engaging tone for learning communications; Use visuals for learning communications; and, Apply gamifcation concepts to traditionally "boring" e-learning, like software and compliance training. S #M303 Leadership Development Game: From Analog to Digital Room: 210 B Speaker: Kendra Herlig, Booz Allen Hamilton Booz Allen Hamilton's innovative Leadership Development team created an effective and large-scale board game, through which simulating leadership challenges helped leaders learn their strengths, weaknesses and better techniques for collaborating for success. In this digital age, however, an analog and intimidating board game was not the solution many clients were looking for. The game mechanics were sometimes obstacles for the leadership development goals of the game. The question arose: what would happen if the same game was delivered via iPad? This session explains the road that was taken to digitize a successful board game and the effectiveness of this endeavor. You will learn to: Analyze the benefts of digital games for leadership development; Understand the process required to make an analog game a digital game; and, Harness ideas for successful games for leadership development. R #M502 Research: Mobile Learning Trends & Practices Room: 210C Speaker: Jason Haag, Analyst and Motif Lead, Advanced Distributive Learning Initiative, U.S. Department of Defense The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative has launched a new project to explore how education and training practitioners can best design mobile learning. The researchers for the Mobile Training Implementation Framework (MoTIF) project, have conducted an extensive study of mobile training across the private and public sector. In this session, Jason will share the adoption rate of various mobile platforms; a review of platforms and applications currently used; Barriers to adoption; and, propose an Instructional Design guidelines for mobile learning. ADL's MoTIF project explores new types of learning and design approaches that take advantage of the capabilities of the mobile platform. The MoTIF project will offer strategies, materials, products, and guidelines as solutions to the design challenges, and will also advance our knowledge about the characteristics of these interventions and the processes involved in designing and developing them. This session will provide you with ADL's mobile learning research fndings and an overview of the MoTIF project. Participants will also receive a list of mobile learning resources and discuss opportunities for getting involved with the community supporting this effort and evolving the framework. S #M304 Learning! 100: Re-inventing Education in a Federal Agency Room: 210D Speaker: Alice Muellerweiss, Muellerweiss and Associates, Inc. If you ever thought it impossible to transform learning in a large government agency — think again! Come learn about the strategy that led to a non-traditional training model that reached more than 200,000 employees nationwide in the frst nine months that resulted in a staggering ROI. The presenter will share key components of the model, success factors, and lessons learned to design your plan to improve corporate learning. If you are interested in evolving or building your organization's learning model, this session is for you! T #M404 Digital Asset Management for E-learning Room: 210A Speaker: Josh Cavalier, CEO, Lodestone As corporate organizations move to more "tribal" learning, there is a huge opportunity for learners to contribute learning assets via mobile devices. This includes geo-tagged images, videos, text and audio recordings. By allowing learners to contribute and share knowledge there is a sense of ownership and inclusion in the process of knowledge transfer. Participants in this session will learn about creating digital assets from mobile devices, metadata, tagging and asset search and retrieval for learning purposes. Discover the cost and beneft of having such a system, and understand what is required to manage learner content creation. Session is recorded and will be broadcast at ELCE Virtual on 10.03.13 ELCESHOW.COM | ELCE 2013 11