Thursday, March 29, 2007

The World's Best Conference Focused on e-Learning Development!

Over 30 experts come to present you with over 70 different sessions for ALL SKILL LEVELS.

Keynote Presentations

Brent Schlenker: Author of the popular Corporate eLearning Development blog

Learning in a Changing World: How Are Web 2.0 and Other Trends Shaping How We Learn and Teach?

The world is changing...FAST! You can't keep up with the demand for training. Why!? Because our systems for designing and delivering training are outdated. They were created specifically to support the educational institutions born out of the industrial revolution. Now, we are at the end of the information age and entering the creative age. Are you ready? Are you prepared to completely rethink the foundation of instructional design and development as we know it? Are you ready and comfortable with the chaos of open information platforms, virtual environments, and user generated content? Brent Schlenker will paint a vivid picture of the new learning ecosystem, the forces impacting our profession, and how we can leverage those forces, and technologies, to become the influencial learning professionals of the 21st century.

About the Presenter:

Brent Schlenker is an independent Learning Technology and Strategy Consultant that helps companies transition from old school eLearning to Learning 2.0 by taking advantage of Web 2.0 technologies and social community models. He helps them recognize the untapped value of informal conversations and collaborative learning environments. He's a passionate learner with over 10 years experience designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating corporate learning solutions. Brent's Corporate eLearning Development blog has become a must read for learning professionals, and gained him recognition as a thought leader in our industry. Brent's unique and engaging presentations have been filling conference rooms for over 2 years and offer insight, practical tips, and a colorful look at the future of Learning in the Corporation.

Patti Shank: President of Learning Peaks, LLC

Rethinking Blending: Improving Outcomes from Technology-based Learning

What's blended learning? If you said "a combination of classroom and online learning," you're thinking far too narrowly, according to Patt. She contends that we need to consider the unique characteristics of specific technologies and methods so we know how each can be best used to enhance teaching and learning. In advance of the conference, Patti will use a wiki to engage conference participants in evaluating the characteristics of different blending dimensions (for example self-paced - collaborative learning). During this interactive session, Patti will facilitate an open dialog about the benefits of a more open definition of blending and how to use this knowledge to improve technology use and outcomes.

About the Presenter:

Patti Shank, PhD, CPT, is the president of Learning Peaks, LLC, an internationally known instructional design and technology consulting group best known for helping others optimize online and blended learning. Clients include government, coporations, nonprofits, and higher education institutions, including Adobe, Fidelity Information Systems, Morgan Stanley, Hunter Douglas, and California State University.

Patti is well known for her independent and systems-oriented approaches to training, learning, and technology and she is listed in Who's Who In Instructional Technology. She's often-requested speaker at training and instructional technology conferences, is quoted frequently in training publications, and has contributed numerous chapters to training and instructional technology books. She coauthored Making Sense of Online Learning (Pfeiffer, 2004) and was the editor for The Online Learning Idea Book (Pfeiffer, 2007). Her articles are found in eLearning Guild publications, Macromedia's eLearning and Training Solutions, Adobe's Resource Center, Magna Publications's Online Classroom, and elsewhere.

Patti completed her PhD at the University of Colorado, Denver, and her interests include Interaction design, tools and technologies for Interaction, the pragmatics of real world Instructional design, and instructional authoring. Her research on views of new online learners won an EDMEDIA 2002 best research paper award.

eLearning DevCon 2007 is organized and hosted by Rapid Intake Inc.

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