Conference 2010 >
Track 1
| Selecting your content development tools
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Barry Sampson, Consultant, barrysampson.com |
Having developed your content strategy, how do you go about selecting the right toolset? Are there really tools that anyone can use, or will there be a big skills gap? Will one tool do anything, or will I need more? What's most important, speed, flexibility, simplicity or collaboration? Is it possible to pick your own content development tools and still work with content vendors? In this session Barry Sampson builds on the strategy considerations and looks in details at the tool options.
- Choosing the right content development tools for your strategy
- What are the benefits and issues around productivity?
- Output formats: what do you need and what can you produce?
- What are the skills and supporting resources you need?
- Real experience: the realities of in house development |
| The shifting authoring landscape
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David Wilson, Managing Director, Elearnity |
The development of organisation specific e-learning is changing significantly. Based on new Elearnity research with major corporates, David will discuss the main drivers of change for e-learning authoring, and the emerging corporate strategies including the merits and realities of rapid e-learning, LCMS, internal vs. external production, SME authoring, and impact on corporates and custom e-learning vendors alike. Which strategies could be right for you? And do they work in reality?
- The range of content development strategies
- Methods of production: SME-led, distributed, and centralized
- The evolving environment - where rapid development and LCMS fit in
- Where to build? Internally, externally and hybrid models
- What are people really doing, and what's really working? |
| The new smart devices for learning
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Steve Wheeler, Senior Lecturer in Education and ICT, University of Plymouth |
Smart phones are now proving themselves for learning, but what happens next with smart devices? Join Steve Wheeler as he explores how existing technologies such as GPS, cameras, light-weight projection and bar code scanning can be combined with new software to extraordinary effect. In the next few years, individual's interactions with the world, and how they learn in it, may be transformed. Steve will explore:
- Augmented reality: the short-cut to information
- The power of smart devices combined with semantic search
- Wearable learning devices - pipe dream or practical reality?
- Devices already altering how people learn: from Kindle to the TouchTable
- The challenge for L&D: adopt and understand now, or play catch up later |
| What cloud computing means for learning
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Stuart Lauchlan, Freelance Journalist |
After a lot of hype and plenty of false starts, cloud computing is finally coming. With widely available broadband and web 2.0 applications, the cloud will hit headlines in 2010. The promise: 'virtualising' IT so that company data and applications are accessed via the internet. That's good news for executives who want IT as a utility, not a costly in-house function. What will the impact be on the Learning and Development department?
- The implications - for better and for worse
- Who will be the winners in learning provision?
- How secure is your data - and your applications - on the cloud?
- Isn't this just SaaS/ASP 2.0?
- Some cloud success stories |
| Using a web 2.0 social learning environment
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Peter Butler, Director of Learning, BT Group |
Peter Butler is Director of Learning, BT Group and chairs BT’s Learning Council, the purpose of which is to maximise the ability of individuals, teams and the organisation as a whole to grow and transform in pursuit of the company’s strategic goals and objectives. Peter’s goal for Learning and Development in BT is to radically improve and transform the workforce performance and competence of both individuals and teams.
Peter has delivered a single, global, enterprise-wide Learning Management System for the company and his many responsibilities include BT’s skills agenda as the organisation transforms to “Software Services”. Peter is supporting the work of e skills UK in the development and launch of a National Skills Academy for the IT Sector. He is also at the forefront of development of collaborative and networked social learning platforms.
Peter joined BT just over 5 years ago having previously been Head of the Learning Consultancy practice in RBS Group. In addition to his work in learning Peter has a wealth of HR experience in the UK.
Peter is 59 and lives in West Oxfordshire with his wife and has four daughters. His interests revolve around sport, mainly as a spectator these days!
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| From content to community: how L & D is changing
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Jane Hart, Social Learning Consultant, Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies |
People naturally learn from each other, and as technology-supported social learning becomes main stream, what effects can we expect it to have on organisational Learning and Development? Jane Hart argues that social learning offers the LandD function great scope for widening its impact, and increasing its effectiveness. But it is also a potential threat: people will use social learning regardless of LandD - so where does this leave the LandD department of the future?
- Social learning: Evolution or revolution?
- Which technology to consider and which to ignore
- Should social learning be top down or bottom up?
- The role of LandD in a world of social learning
- Do courses have a future?
Further details
Jane Hart is a Social Learning Consultant, with a long track record of helping business and education understand how new technologies can be used for learning as well as to improve job and business performance. Jane currently focuses on helping organizations implement social media and social learning environments. Jane is the Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies at www.C4LPT.co.uk where she provides a number of free resources including the Directory of Learning Tools, the Top 100 Tools for Learning, and the Connexions Directory of Learning Professionals Online. Jane is also the author of a number of blogs including Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day. She regularly presents at e-learning conferences and events, both in the UK and internationally, and she is also a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford University on the MSc in E-Learning.
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