Wednesday, March 24

Beginners: What Is ADDIE, Anyway?
With Stephen Acheson

In this session, we will look at the benefits of using the ADDIE process, discuss what each of the steps in the process are and why they are necessary, and look at a simplified tool that will help the participants track and complete the ADDIE process.

Keynote Follow-up — The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
With Jean Marrapodi

Let’s talk about the instructional design implications in Sir Ken Robinson’s message.

Nine Biggest Mistakes in Learning Measurement
With Will Thalheimer

Measuring learning is mission critical. Myths, mistakes, and blind spots are unacceptable. A new clarity is needed. We can start by fixing our nine biggest mistakes.

Front-end Analysis: Show Me the Problem!
With Jean Marrapodi

To ensure that we are meeting the needs of the learner we must define what they actually are. We will examine some tools for the initial process of needs analysis in this session. Bring your lunch if you’d like.

Designing for the Constructivist Model: Building What’s Going to Exist
With Phil Ice

To plan for the future of e-Learning it is essential to create current environments that are open and can be disaggregated into building blocks that can be transformed in the future. In practice, this means leveraging the cloud based repositories, application clustering tools, content that can be added to either directly or through integration into new environments and designing from a learning ecosystem perspective.

Design Strategies for Leveraging Social Media for Learning
With David Wilkins

Confused about where to start with social learning? Not sure exactly what it is or how to design for it? In this interactive session, we’ll define three core social learning approaches, map your learning needs assessment against possible approaches and then define some possible strategies and interventions using a mix of formal and social learning approaches. As appropriate, we’ll reference real world examples to showcase how other companies have tackled these problems.

Gaming: Analyzing the Learning in a Game to Build a Business Case
With Mark Oehlert, Koreen Olbrish

How do you ‘sell’ the use of games within your organization? How do you talk to both users and management about the benefits of including games in your learning curriculum? What are the best possible use cases for games? What kind of cost levels should you expect and how might al that differ from the traditional courses that you may have built or purchased?

Thursday, March 25

ADDIE: Is It Still Valid for Today?
With Clark Quinn, Stephen Acheson

Let’s talk about it: Join Stephen Acheson and Clark Quinn and voice your opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of the ADDIE process.

Keynote Reflections — How We Decide: The New Science of Decision Making
With Cammy Bean

Let's talk about how understanding decision making has huge implications as we design e-Learning.

E-Learning by Doing: How to Design Practical Online Exercises
With Tom Eucker

We all know that “the kiss of death” for e-Learning is posting electronic versions of lectures or re-purposed classroom material that is not learner-centered. How do we know what kinds of interactions would be best and how do we provide exercises that deal with the fuzzy concepts or principles associated with “soft skills?”

Designing for Mobile Learning
With Clark Quinn

The devices are out there, the tools are in place, and the opportunities are real. Come hear what the design issues are to take advantage of m-Learning.

Collaborating to Get Maximum Value Out of Your Subject Matter Experts
With Jon Aleckson

Collaborating with experts is often a key factor in creating successful eLearning programs. Learn 5 ways you can provide informal leadership that enables increased collaboration between your SME and your staff or vendor. Jon discusses the challenges and benefits of a concerted effort to share expertise, and how to use formative evaluation to help increase SME passion for your e-Learning initiative. Most importantly, you will come away from this session with ideas on how to work with and handle SMEs.

Tools Overview for Beginners: You Need More than a Hammer
With Kevin Thorn

A garage has tools. A kitchen has tools. A developer of e-Learning has tools. What's in your toolbox?

Options for Getting ID Certificates, Certifications, or Degrees
With Donald Stepich, Greg Williams, Bobbe Baggio, Dana Willet, Vanessa Goodrum, Paula Jones, Phil Ice

Graduates and professors from a variety of colleges, universities and certificate programs will be on hand to answer your questions about advancing your careers in this informal setting.

Friday, March 26

Audience Analysis: Who’s Going to Be Using This Stuff?
With Tom Hammond

Exquisite training products no one is aware of are useless. It is important to remember that e-Learning is for people and the focus should be on what the audience will accept not what we think they should accept. Demographics, Personas, and at the minimum defining what the need it are vital to designing, developing, and delivering useful learning that the audience will use.

Project Management: Keeping All of the ID Pieces Organized
With Jennifer DeVries

E-Learning projects can have many moving parts, including requirements, content, schedules, documents, graphics, media and more. IDs’ methods to stay organized vary as widely as projects themselves and may include post-its, mindmaps, spreadsheets, MS Project and more. In this session we’ll discuss the many ways that IDs try to keep it together, in the middle of their project storms.