New England Learning Association

While thunderstorms and horrible traffic on 128 may have kept some attendees away and made others late (including me!), last night’s NELA Choice Awards was a great success.  All who attended felt that the event was a great format and provided an exciting way to see many different e-Learning concepts in one short evening.

The format required that all seven presenters limit themselves to five minutes (okay, Pat really gave people six before shutting them down) for their presentation.  Everyone agreed that this was the hardest part of the event, getting one or two key points across clearly in just five minutes.  At the end of the evening, each audience member was able to vote for their top two presentations.  Then the votes were tallied and prizes were awarded for the top three presentations.

The Winning Presentation Are:

1. Doug Foster, “Moving from Training to Collaborative Learning”
2. Nurit Bloom, “A Tale of Two e-Learning Vendors: Pitfalls and Best Practices”
3. Ted Coine, “Developing eLearning Content for New Computer Users”

Thanks again to Pat O’Malley for all his work coordinating this event and to all the presenters for their hard work trying to get a presentation to fit into a five minute time limit.  We feel the event was a great success and will be working to refine the format a bit to make it an annual event.

We will be working with all of the presenters to get their presentations and/or support materials up here for those of you who weren’t able to make it to the event, so check back soon.

Event Date: June 14th 

The presentations for the NELA Choice Awards are in!  There are still a few people that we are following up with, but here is the current list of presentations for Wednesday:

• Ted Coine, Coiné Corporate Training - “Developing eLearning Content for New Computer Users”
• Nurit Bloom, Bright Horizons - “A Tale of Two E-Learning Vendors: Pitfalls and Best Practices”
• Mark Siegel,  MSA Solutions - “The E-learning Proposal Development Process: The 1st Step in Bringing Value to Clients”
• Malcolm Johnston - “Simulations: Creating Engaging eLearning”
• Paul Braswell - “Making Learning a Strategy Inititative: How the World Bank makes learning part of the organizations’ overall business strategy.”
• Doug Foster - “Moving from Training to Collaborative Learning”
• Lisa Neal - “The use of personas and heuristic evaluation for e-learning”

Event Details:

Date: June 14, 2006, 6-8pm
Home Suites Inn-Weston Room
455 Totten Pond Road, Waltham, MA 02451

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Event Date: June 14, 2006

Do you have an elearning story to share? 

NELA will be hosting a session on June 14th, 2006 entitled “The NELA Choice Awards – Users Sharing Stories” — Best Practices and Lessons Learned.

You are invited to present lessons you learned or best practices you discovered, for example:

• in a program launch
• while marketing your elearning program
• while developing a Return on Investment evaluation
• while developing or implementing the content in your Elearning program

Some other ideas are described in the details below by clicking on (more…) below.

Benefits of presenting

• each presenter will receive free admission to a future event
• the overall winner will receive a prize
• you will significantly contribute to the advancement of the elearning community

Guidelines

• keep it brief, compelling and to the point: stories should be 5 minutes or less
• vendors are welcome but keep in mind that attendees are looking for practical useful tips: no sales presentations

Action

• if you are interested in presenting, please read the details below by clicking on (more…) below and send a submission by June 1 to PatNELA@PatrickOMalley.com
• call 617-PATRICK (that’s my phone number, no kidding) if you have any questions or would like to discuss anything related to the session.

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