Conference 2007
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| Producing great learning without going large | |||||||||||||
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William Ward, Managing Director, Technology Niche | ||||||||||||
 How can you support learning and development inventively and effectively using your existing tool set and just a few additions, without doing the enterprise LMS and the big money? In this session, popular speaker William Ward describes how to use some commonly available products to produce good-looking and sounding learning interventions that are fit for purpose - and available fast. - Reclaiming learning from the centralised world of the LMS - Can anyone really be an author? Even the head of sales? - Learning nuggets for performance support - the practical reality - Podcasting with PowerPoint? - Embracing the phenomena of social networking |
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| Smart uses of synchronous learning tools | |||||||||||||
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Bob Jose, Head of Sales, Mortgage:Brain | ||||||||||||
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Software supplier Mortgage Brain has over 35,000 mortgage advisers using the company's products, ranging from individuals to large companies. With a team of 10 trainers and account managers, the company needed to find a way of providing good user training cost effectively. This session examines how they have done this by using a synchronous training tool inventively - Segmenting training requirements and identifying approaches - Developing a holistic programme of training and demonstration - Building pre-recorded sessions into blended learning - Using a synchronous training tool for diagnosis and support - Building a resource library |
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| The challenges for today's e-learning | |||||||||||||
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David Wilson, Managing Director, eLearnity | ||||||||||||
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Leading corporate learning analyst David Wilson explores the new face of e-learning. Part of the mainstream of organisational learning for over 5 years, what changes have we seen in the shape of e-learning, and how can we expect it to be different in the near future? David will focus in particular on: - New methods of content production - will rapid development prove a fad? - Integration of talent and performance management with e-learning - The growing use of technology-enabled informal learning - The growth in software as a service - The spread of e-learning beyond the high-tech environment |
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| Succeeding in the new e-learning environment | |||||||||||||
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Barry Dyer, Group Director of Organisation Development, BUPA and Alison Williams, Group e-Learning Business Consultant, BUPA | ||||||||||||
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Not all blended learning successes come from deploying e-learning to professionals in an IT-rich environment. When BUPA moved part of its 5-day all-classroom training programme for care home managers and administrators to an e-learning platform, it faced a challenging environment. Despite that, BUPA now has enthusiastic learners and a positive reaction to the new, lower-cost blended learning programme. - Understanding diverse training needs across a diverse business - Building content for low-bandwidth delivery - Organisational strategy and learning requirements - Producing an effective blended learning programme - Meeting the infrastructure challenge: technical and physical |
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| Improving e-learning take up | |||||||||||||
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Laura Overton, Skills for Business Network and Alison Innes-Farquhar, Priory Group | ||||||||||||
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This interactive, hour-long session will provide practical ideas for improving e-learning take up by building on the successes and pitfalls of others. The session will have inputs from the Priory Group, e-learning award winners in 2006 for widening participation, and from the new research by the Skills for Business Network which as has gathered responses from over 200 hundred organisations implementing e-learning and over 500 learners to understand why they get involved both inside and outside of work. Delegates will build on these inputs to work together on tackling their own e-learning adoption issues. - How to improve our executive sponsorship - How to improve the business impact of learning - How to capture the attention of time starved learners - How to effectively involve busy line managers - How to recognise and reward successes |
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| Podcasting, blogs and on-line worlds | |||||||||||||
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Ron Edwards, Managing Director, Ambient Performance | ||||||||||||
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In this session, Ron Edwards puts a range of new learning technologies under the spotlight, examines their potential and considers whether they measure up to the rhetoric. - What are the learning applications of wikis, blogging and podcasts? - How are virtual worlds being used for learning? - Is mobile learning finally feasible? - What is the role of new technologies for learning? - How to integrate new technologies with existing approaches |
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