Conference 2007 >
Track 1
| Rapid content development - myth or reality?
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David Portas and Scott McStay, PA Consulting Group |
When a major government department aimed to produce 100 hours of online content, they faced two familiar problems: a lack of both time and money.
Rather than ask a specialist supplier to produce the content, they opted to do it themselves, and turned a group of 10 instructional designers into end-to-end e-learning content producers. This presentation examines the story of their success.
- Developing quality content from concept to testing
- Can anyone be an instructional designer?
- Including emulation in self-designed content
- The limits of using non-specialised designers
- Working with an LMS, LCMS and other systems |
| Building great content with subject matter experts
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Jon Turner, Instructional Design Lead
NHS Radiology Integrated Training Initiative |
Not all subject matter experts (SMEs) have the time or inclination to produce learning content. In the case of the NHS Radiology Integrated Training Initiative, the SMEs were 300 highly-qualified consultants. How were they persuaded to build up a bank of 600 hours of training, on time and unpaid?
- Building a design process around your SMEs
- Motivation, risk and reward
- When SMEs can and can't be persuaded to author
- Ensuring quality with the expert review process
- Using tools to capture and share expertise. |
| 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 |
| Smart uses of synchronous learning tools
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Bob Jose, Head of Sales, Mortgage:Brain |
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 |
| The challenges for today's e-learning
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David Wilson, Managing Director, eLearnity |
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 |
| 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 |
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 |
