Sessions
Keynote Session
10:00 – 10:50 am: Synchronous eLearning: Past, Present & Future
Speaker: Jennifer Hofmann, InSync Training
Host: Mark Anthony French, President of the ASTD Greater Philadelphia Chapter
We live in times of profound change. The technologies we know, the markets that served us, the educational system we grew up with, to name just a few, are all changing. Learning is the new constant. It is a life-long endeavor and one that is being fueled by online learning. The next big frontier for the Internet is training and learning. Fueled by economics and globalization, the Internet is playing an ever increasing role in the way we all learn. It is also changing the way we look at learning, how and what knowledge is available to whom. The day will soon arrive when learning will become just learning and facilitated knowledge will be available on-demand to everyone.
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Track 1: Holding Successful Webinars
11:00 – 11:50 am: Online Meetings 101: How to Run a Successful Online Meeting
Speaker: Dr. Margaret “Peg” McManus, LaSalle University
Host: Nathan Eckel, Intelligent Design Concepts
Online meetings serve as a convenient way for persons at disparate locations to meet. However, running a successful online meeting may challenge even the best facilitator. This session will address several techniques for online meetings, such as brainstorming systems; online meeting systems; and audio, video, and webinar conferencing systems. You will learn about their features, functions and challenges, view some sample systems, and discover how to evaluate if the system will help to make your meeting a success.
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1:00 – 1:50 pm: Engaging Your Audience: Delivering Outstanding Virtual Events
Speakers: Frank Gartland & Curtis Lewis, iLinc Communications
Host: Michele Morreale, Merck
Never present over the sound of snoring again. Attend this session to learn techniques and skills for virtual training and meetings with particular emphasis placed on keeping attendees focused, engaged, and motivated during the session.
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2:00 – 2:50 pm: Creating Collaborative Synchronous Exercises
Speaker: Dr. Nanette Miner, The Training Doctor
Host: Gordon Lewis, University of Toyota
This session will discuss and explore the concerns that many online Facilitators have: how to keep participants engaged and active in the online environment so that the learning outcome is of the same quality as a classroom-based delivery. This session will focuses on what the instructional designer can do via the design process in order to alleviate the Facilitator’s concerns and provide a quality learning experience for the participants. The design concepts addressed in this session include interaction vs. collaboration, concurrent and serial collaboration, uses for interaction vs. collaboration, and best practices for online collaboration and its design. At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to choose the correct event type from among meetings, presentations, and learning events, explain a 3-step instructional design technique used to determine which instructional objectives can be taught in a synchronous environment, and define online interaction and online collaboration.
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Track 2: Using Web 2.0 Technologies
11:00 – 11:50 am: Capturing Knowledge Without Killing It
Speaker: Matt Ellis, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Host: Joe Mullock, University of Pennsylvania
In this presentation you will hear about a project being done within the Federal Reserve System called Leadership Stories. This initiative, led by a team from the Philadelphia Fed, captures knowledge by conducting recorded conversations and interviews with various leaders and then makes the interviews available as podcasts to the entire workforce of the Federal Reserve System via a web site.
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1:00 – 1:50 pm: Producing Engaging Virtual Learning Conferences with Web 2.0 Tools
Speaker: Dr. Juan Leon, Juan Leon & Associates
Host: Molly Moyle, AstraZeneca
This session will focus on two areas of special interest to anyone responsible for online learning events: the design of engaging and effective virtual conferences, and the use of Web 2.0 tools such as social networks to bring additional value to those events. We will look at the design principles that have emerged as guidelines for structuring your events and successfully integrating key event components such as web portals, learning management systems, web conferencing services, and virtual classroom tools themselves. We’ll also address the types of instructional interactions that can be fostered between your audience and these central components of your online learning conference. We’ll conclude by considering variations on the structure of the virtual learning conference and future directions for these types of online events.
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2:00 – 2:50 pm: Web 2.0 & the Generational Divide: Fact or Friction
Speaker: D. Mike Smith, CommunicationsPro.com
Host: Karen Lubrecht, cKc Consultants
This session will explore whether Generational Issues (Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen Y, and Gen X) affect the use of Web 2.0. A lively interactive survey coupled with scenarios will provide a platform for audience participation. Bring your “street cred”, opinions, and experience with you.
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Track 3: Creating First-Rate Training
11:00 – 11:50 am: You Trained Them, but Have They Learned Anything?
Speaker: Dr. Steven Just, Pedagogue Solutions
Host: Jean Scattergood, JLS Consulting
Each year US corporations spend between $50 and $100 billion (depending on whose estimates you believe) on training. After spending all this money you would think it would be common sense to want to know if the trainees have actually learned something. Surprisingly, many corporations do not assess knowledge acquisition (not to mention transfer of training back to the job) after a training session, and even those who do often do so with no scientific rigor. This session will provide you with the knowledge you need to create fair, valid and reliable assessments of learning. With accurate measurements you can justify your training expenditures, improve your training programs and hold employees to defensible standards.
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1:00 – 1:50 pm: Problem-Based Learning: Using Real-Life Problems to Accelerate Learning
Speaker: Dr. Sheella Mierson, Creative Learning Solutions
Host: Karen Lubrecht, cKc Consultants
As a learning and development professional, you know how to structure training so that people are active when learning skills. But how do you structure training to be active when participants need to master lots of facts, ideas and behaviors? Problem-Based Learning provides an answer. Participants work in small groups to seek solutions to complex, real-world problems. The problems or scenarios are tailored for the particular needs and challenges of the group and organization. Participants can learn technical subjects, problem-solving methods, organizational knowledge, and accumulated corporate wisdom, and simultaneously develop authentic people skills. In this hands-on session, you will experience the method from the participants’ perspective.
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2:00 – 2:50 pm: The Impact of Culture on Learning Activities: Learning in a Global Context
Speaker: Erik Granered, ITAP International
Host: Katrin Holzhaus, Magnum Group, Inc.
This session will include examples from Erik’s experience including: analysis of outsourcing training for cultural fit (India/US); design, delivery and train-the-trainer for Customer Care Across Cultures (Philippines/US); conducting talent potential analysis programs and follow-on development approaches (Germany/US) – all focused on making the learning culturally appropriate across cultures.
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Note: Registered attendees will be able to view recordings of all 10 sessions after the conference. Can’t make it on Oct 16th, register and view the entire conference offline at your convenience.
