Conference 2007 >
Track 2
| How learners learn, and why
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Howard Hills, Principal Consultant, Howard Hills Associates |
Do all people learn the same things in the same way? In this session on the psychology of learning, Howard Hills draws on the latest research to examine what motivates learners to learn, and how personality types and learning approaches may affect the outcome.
- Classifying interests against motivation to learn.
- The part played by team relationships
- Are you a follower or leader in learning?
- Team Culture, global teams and the impact on learning
- Work-based learning, barriers and motivation |
| Making learning work for adults at work
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Frank Nigriello, Director of Corporate Affairs, Unipart |
Twenty years of practical experience, combined with solid academic research has given Unipart a unique insight into how adults learn for increased performance. Frank Nigriello explains the seven principles behind Unipart's vision of accelerated learning, with empirical examples of putting these principles into action.
- Your amazing, multi-process brain
- Learning as a collaborative venture within a community
- The crucial role of the voice of experience
- Why it is vital to 'pitch at the image brain'
- Why you ignore the holistic side of learning at your peril |
| Creating a virtual learning and development home for all
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Elisabeth Jaegle, Manager, Academy Online and Learning Services, E.ON Academy GmbH |
Realising that it could make better use of its eLearning by creating a one-stop shop for all learning & development offerings within the company, in mid 2005 energy service provider E.ON decided to open its Online Academy to all staff.. What changes did this require and how did this shift the ways its learning platform was used?
- Understanding learning motivation differences across your population
- The role of the user feedback
- Using the system for self-service and structured learning
- How to localise content without losing control
- Widening the scope of content on the system |
| Targeted messaging to drive learning adoption
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Jakob Alkil, Head of Training, Ford of Europe |
The more delegates an e-learning programme touches, the more messages are needed to ensure that each understands the benefit of e-learning to them. Ford's launch of e-learning to 30,000 car dealers across 21 European countries meant they had to be sure they produced several compelling reasons to learn for each target group.
- Understanding your users: defining and targeting message groups
- Persuading the managers to let the learners learn
- Overcoming technical challenges
- Dealing with local and cultural issues
- Building a financial justification for marketing |
| Informal learners: better design and delivery
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Neil Lasher, President, ASTD Global Network UK |
In this session, Neil Lasher challenges some of the ways informal learning is currently perceived. Not everyone is an expert, nor should they be asked to be, but L&D can deliver expert-based knowledge in ways that suit the informal learner, and which enhance personal and organisational performance, by giving people the tools and the information to complete every task without error.
- Embedding information at the point of need
- The vital difference between learning 'want' and 'need'
- Augmenting formal learning with informal learning
- The four 'A's of learning - and the vital 5th
- Credible authorship - essential to performance gain |
| Helping informal learning succeed
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Nick Shackleton-Jones, Online and Informal Learning Manager, BBC Training and Development |
Informal learning has always been with us - but how can learning and development (L&D) professionals facilitate and make it more effective without stifling it? At the BBC, trained psychologist Nick Shackleton-Jones is responsible for ensuring that informal learning continues to bloom. In this session, he examines:
- The role of technology in informal learning
- Should L&D provide direction, content or facilitation?
- The 'long tail' principle and user-generated content
- Can informal learning encompass 'push' learning?
- Building a culture of learning through sharing |
