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.

For those of you who could not make it to last night’s panel discussion, Creating a Learning Culture in a Biotech Setting, or for those of us who continue to talk about it, here are some brief notes on the event.

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