New England Learning Association

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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For those of you who are still not sure they will attend Thursday’s panel discussion Creating a Learning Culture in a Biotech Setting, here is a preview of some of the questions that will be discussed:

• The Biotech and BioPharma industries have a wide range of audiences that you have to deal with, from scientists, and doctors, to sales people, administrators and even folks on the manufacturing floor.  What are the different learning styles that you have to deal with because of this?
• Given this wide range of learners and learning styles, what different delivery technologies do you use and how do you provide a blended learning approach that supports them all?
• This industry is heavily compliance driven. How does this impact what you do, and how you need to deliver the training?
• What is an example of one of your current projects and how does it take all of this into account
• What are your one or two key learnings or success factors that you have gained from this work that you think would really help anybody in the audience who is faced with the same types of challenges when rolling out training?

If you want to learn the answers to these questions and more, don’t miss the event.

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• Is m-learning the next big thing in e-learning? If so, what makes it so hot?
• What’s happened to learning objects? Have they gone underground like 80s music? If so, when can we expect their revival?
• In his new book, Marc Rosenberg announces that we’re moving Beyond E-Learning. Is that someplace we want to go?
• Everyone says that, because the current generation of young people is addicted to video games, workplace learning needs to morph into the Sims and Delta Force. But how much does everyone really know?
• In its just-released 2005 Industry Report, TRAINING Magazine declared that the classroom “ain’t dead yet.” So when?

I’ll explore these and similar issues this Tuesday, January 24, 2006, in my presentation, “Seperating the reality from the chatter in learning theories.” 6 - 8 pm, at the Canadian Consulate, Three Copley Place, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02116.

Saul Carliner